19 May
2016
19 May
'16
11:47 p.m.
On 20/05/2016 05:19, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Hi Jerome
Thanks for the answer.
1. The system is going into an exhibit. There will be an assortment of
DEC terminals attached
2. The guy who is going to look after it has years of RSTS user knowledge.
3, There are several systems available all 11/83. All with RD54
4. They are working and boot RSX .
5. I cant remember how to remember how to prepare a bootable RSTS
install tape (I last did the course in 1983)
6. I do have a copy of RSTS V9 and I know the version supports TK50.
Its a .tap image
7. So its a case move the image over to my VAX from my PC. My network
can do that.
8. Then make the tape boot and install RSTS
9 . How do I do that?
Rod
Rod Smallwood
wrote:
I'm not overly worried about it being on TK50
other than knowing that
was one of the distribution mediums.
So a quick rephrase of the question. I have an 11/83 system with an
RX50 and an RD54. How do I install RSTS on it?
Why do you want to use the PDP-11/83? Do you want
to run RSTS/E or just exercise the PDP-11/83 hardware?
If your answer is running RSTS/E, there is much more
convenient hardware than a PDP-11/83.
If you want to exercise the PDP-11/83, the solution I
understand is to use a hammer when you only have a nail.
If you don't know how to prepare a TK50 tape that self boots
and then does a restore of RSTS/E, then you might resort to
using RT-11. Backup each RT-11 partition under either
SimH or Ersatz-11. The restore using the RX50 drive and
copy each RT-11 partition to the RD54 from the TK50 file
images.
Of course, you need to be able to write to a TK50 tape
under SimH or Ersatz-11. You also have to take care
of block 65535 for each RT-11 partition since I don't
know if RT-11 will backup it up. If you need some help
with this, I will try and figure it out as long as you test
to determine if you can write to a TK50 tape in the first
place.
Jerome Fine