30 Dec
2008
30 Dec
'08
8:38 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Bob Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
This procedure is for a MicroVAX, though. You're not going to be able to
boot directly from magtape on a 11/7xx VAX.
Here's some other notes on the net that are 11/780 specific.
http://www.employees.org/~kirk/page0207.html
Looks like it involves loading some bootstrap images into the
simulator at various stages during the installation process with
simulator commands that I am not familiar with:
Example:
sim> load -o ./tp/copy 0
sim> run 2
sim> load -o ./tp/boot 0
sim> run 2
sim> load -o ./boot43 0
sim> d r10 9
sim> d r11 0
sim> run 2
Where copy and boot were extracted from srcsys.tar on the distribution
tape. I guess on real hardware you would need to somehow get those
files onto whatever the console media is, however that works.