Need RT-11 on RX02

Well, it took almost the entire weekend to get the floppy images over to my laptop. I had to get 2 9 track tape drives working (at the same time). What I have is 6 512512 byte (1001 sectors) images of the floppies. This doesn't seem quite right to me and simh didn't want to boot from it. Also if I boot RT from a simulated disk, RT doesn't like the directory (on the floppy). I unfortunately don't have a bootable RT pack for my 11/45 so I can't try it out on real hardware (and have *never* been able to boot from floppy on my 11's). The transfer involved the following: floppy --> files on 11/45 --> tape --> files on laptop I used the following to get the floppy images: dd if=/dev/rrx2 of=/tmp/rt11.n n was the # of the diskette I then tar'd up the directory and put it out on the TU80. I then put the tape in TSZ07 on one of my office machines and then copied the files over to my laptop. The only step I'm not sure about is the original "dd", but it seemed the most reasonable to me. I didn't notice a difference if I used the block device rather than the raw one (ie /dev/rx2 vs rrx2). I don't know if simh is expecting anything different in terms of image for the floppy. I'll continue working on it for a bit (but at a slower pace). I needed to do most of this anyway. I now have a tape of BSD 2 which I can put onto my unix v7m so that's progress (I've even verified that I can read the BSD tape!). Soon I'll be able to use vi on my 11 (no more ed)! On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 09:21, Guy Sotomayor wrote: -- TTFN - Guy