16 Aug
1999
16 Aug
'99
1:51 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
If it was
built with MUB.COM, yes, it is bootable.
Thank Goodness! I have to
admit that I'm a bit unclear on what the problem is that
you're trying to solve, much less what you're trying to do to overcome
the difficulties that you're throwing in your own path :-).
I'm trying to
move my system onto better disks. Plus, I'd managed to pretty
much trash my RT-11 system a few months ago, when I last had time to work on
it. Then add in the fact that my system is such a mutant beast (as an
example the HD controller it boots off of isn't the one it is using for
disks) that I've never managed to get floppies working on it and you've got
a real mess. The TK-50 question is a result of my having built a
V5.4 distribution tape to
avoid some of these problems, plus having another tape with at least a
partial backup. This was a nightmare to get setup the first time so I'm
trying to avoid some of that by recovering stuff off of tape, as opposed to
jumping through the same hoops I did last time.
If you can set-up a system with an RX50, that should solve the problem
of having a minimum RT-11 set of files that you can always boot from.
On the other hand now that I'm thinking clearer
than I was last night I've
realized that if I can figure out which of the 4 HD's sitting in a pile has
RT-11 on it, I should probably just hook it up, and SYSGEN in that
controller. Which should give me the added benifit of being able to back
the system up to the old Hard Drive when everything is sorted out.
Don't wait to back it up - do the backup ASAP!!
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine