15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
4:53 a.m.
On Jan 14, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I don't know about booting another OS directly from vtserver, but
I've successfully copied a BRUSYS image to RX02 with it, and booted
This may seem
silly, but it occured to me this morning (musing about
how
to boot an old 11/34) that I could use a device which would pretend to
be an actual tape drive.
You can take a look at 'vtserver', though it seems to only be for Unix
(I'm not positive about this, as I've not looked into it much). from the resulting disk. ISTR that there's also a
method to make a
vtserver-bootable xxdp image, but I've not tried it.
If you get RL02 drives, and a MicroVAX (Q-Bus) with an
RLV12
controller to drive the RL01/RL02 drives, there are a few tricks that
you can pull to get an OS onto the packs. Still, that might be a lot
more hardware to collect.
Heh. I've got SDI with functional RA60s and media, TU80, several
miles of tape, RX02s with exactly two(2) working floppy disks and about
30 pounds of 8-inch bulk-erased coasters, and a borrowed RT-11
v5.<mumble> install set on 8-inch media, except Disk 1 has about 3
critical corrupt files on it.
I apparently own the licenses for both RT-11 v5.x and RSX11M on this
box (very long story), but the previous owner bulk-erased *all* the
storage media except the disk packs (and wrote zeroes, then trash files
then zeroes again, to the disk packs). Including all the distribution
media.
It's enough to make a grown man cry. I've got BSD running on it, but
frankly, I've got a metric assload of Unix boxes that are more
interesting as Unix servers and cheaper to run. I wanted something
that's unique to my PDP-11.
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