cctalk Digest, Vol 89, Issue 21

You could boot a packaged Linux that doesn't need installation but runs directly from the boot device. I haven't done this but I know they are out there and easy to use. SimH complex and lots of setup? Not my experience. The documentation may be sparse in places, as I found when configuring a PDP-10 setup, but the PDP-11 setups are well documented. SCSI controller, that's beside the point. I assume it looks to the PDP-11 as an MSCP controller, right? It would have to be, else you'd have no chance of running a standard OS. If so, you'd just tell SIMH to configure an MSCP controller with a disk of size matching what you have. When you said "won't write a disk image to a real RX50" do you mean an RX50 drive, or an RX50 floppy in a plain PC 5.25 inch drive? I don't know about the former, but the latter has long worked for me. I haven't used Windows for stuff like that in ages, and don't want to use it if I can avoid it, but my RSTSFLX 2.6 can be build for DOS (using DJGPP). I don't have an executable of that version handy but could probably create one. That doesn't create from images, though; it manipulates RSTS file systems. A simple program to copy an image, along the lines of the rx50.py I mentioned, would not be hard to make. paul