1 Sep
2003
1 Sep
'03
11:04 p.m.
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Just another plug: I have (so far) archived about 900 tapes (TK50,TK70
and magtapes) into TDF file format, which is basically a superset of
the wellknown E11/SimH "tap" format supporting tape label info (what
was written on the paper labels), block and file CRC checking, and
compression.
It takes E11 about a minute to fully install an ULTRIX-11 V3.2 tape
this way ;-)
Cheers,
Fred
And how do I
get it on a tape?
There is a programm called "maketape" in the 2.11BSD
distribution. I
used it with great success to write PDP-11 and VAX BSD tapes. Of corse
this requires that you have a machine with a suitable tape drive, *IX
like OS (for maketape) and network (to get the distfiles onto it) at
hand. I created my 2.11BSD tapes on the QBus PDP-11 machine. I replaced
PDP-11 CPU and RAM with VAX CPU and RAM, netbooted NetBSD, wrote the
tapes, remounted the PDP-11 CPU and RAM and started the installation.