30 Dec
2008
30 Dec
'08
3:29 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Bob Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
Is there a 9-track distribution? How do you install it? Normally you'd
install VMS from 9-track by booting S/A BACKUP from TU58 or an RL02 pack - I
assume there's some kind of stand alone mtboot program for Un*x, but what
media do you load that from?
Back to the original subject, yes, you install 4.3BSD Quasijarus by
booting the distribution tape.
I created my own 9-track tape by grabbing the distribution files from
the net and then writing them to a tape. (I used some DOS utility
programs I wrote along with a PCTD16 controller in a PC to write the
files to a tape.) I then booted the tape on a KA655 with an Emulex
QT13 controller in TMSCP mode attached to a Fujitsu M2444AC 9-track
tape drive and installed on an RA70 disk drive attached to a KDA50.
I basically followed along with the installation info I found here and
gettting a basic bootable system installed was fairly straight
forward.
http://www.itsecuritygeek.com/itsgeek/comments/43bsd-quasijarus-on-simh-vax/