2.11BSD Patch 445; FPSIM fixed; 211bsd runs on systems without

Zane H. Healy wrote: Actually, that is the way I did it on my real 11/44 h/w. It has an MSCP SCSI (emulex UC17) disk controller that I have both a r/w hard drive (a 1GB seagate) and a scsi CDROM (a DEC RRD43 aka Toshiba XM4101B). I did all the sysgen/config in SIMH, building 2.11BSD from tape and installing all the patches (and rearranging all the objects withing the kernel overlays to get the MSCP and TMSCP device drivers to fit .. but that is a whole other story). When I was happy with what was running on SIMH, I used the RA92 disk image to write an ISO cdrom using CDRWIN (or there are other freeware programs as well). Then I took the CDROM out to the real 11/44 h/w, and booted the CDROM via the DU device boot prom. 2.11BSD will boot to single user on a read-only drive. To get the bits from the CDROM to the hard drive required a bit of trickery, since 2.11BSD stores the partition map on the drive. 'dd' won't work before the drive has been formatted under 2.11BSD. I used XXDP (booted from my trusty TU58 serial emulator) to copy the first 32MB from the CDROM to the hard drive as an image transfer. This 32MB contained the complete root filesystem, so I could now boot the hard drive 2.11BSD image. At this point I could then use 'dd' to copy all the bits from the CDROM to the hard drive. One last gotcha is that the CDROM is only 700MB, whereas the RA72 .dsk image is 1GB, so the last 400MB is truncated. This was allocated to the '/user' filesystem (nothing in it) so I just used standard 2.11BSD commands to reimage the filesystem in that partition. So the long answer to both your questions is yes.