"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
>I was trying to organize some E11 stuff, spread
over several computers,
>and could not gey my rk05/RT11v2B to boot.
Jerome Fine replies:
I answered Nick Oliviero privately since I did not
think that anyone else might be interested.
While I have everything on one computer now,
there is quite a lot! I am attempting to copy as
many different RT-11 distributions to a CD as
I can find.
I did boot on RK05 under E11:
V02C-02 20-Nov-1975 both SJ and FB
V03B-00 date not reliable both SJ and FB
I doubt that E11 could boot both of the above
versions and not be able to boot V02B.
Some years back
when I first loaded these images, I
thought these had booted for me, but maybe my memory is
playing tricks on me. Anyone ever succeeded in
booting v2B under E11?
I'm pretty sure I've booted V2C off of an RP02 using
E11, for one thing I don't think that simh supports RP02's or at least at that
time it didn't. I can't check, as I don't have a system that can run E11 at
the moment (I really do need to find time to get a small x86 Linux box up and running for
E11, simh, and KLH10).
The V20C that I just tested was acquired in
Montreal about 2 years ago. I acquired a
number of RK05 media along with an RK05
drive. A year later I was able to borrow an
RK05 controller and copy the media to
a Sony SMO S-501 media.
I am attempting to make up a "pristine" RK05
distribution for V02C, but I have doubts I will
be able to do so. Can anyone else help. I
probably have all or at least most of the files,
but the order is in question.
I also have V03B as well from an RK05, BUT
the media had a lot of bad blocks, so probably
many files are bad.
In addition, I am confident that I have a V4.00C
image on an RK05, but it is not yet "pristine".
In particular, the Volume ID / Owner may be
incorrect, and the order of the files could be
different. Plus there could be other aspects
that do not match, but I am confident it is
close enough at this point unless someone
else has a copy that I could compare with?
In general, does anyone have any RT-11
distributions for V1x, V2x, V3x and V4x
that can be checked against other copies?
I prefer RK05, but they seem very difficult
to fine, so any media would be gratefully
appreciated!
I think it was simh that I used for booting RT-11 V1.
I think I also have that image as well. Do you know
what device is used? I will try with an RX01 first.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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