On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
So, I'm trying to do what VTServer was invented
for - load Unix into an
actual
PDP-11, over its serial line, when one doesn't have machine-readable Unix
on
any mass storage for the machine.
However, all the initial code that VTServer loads ('mkfs', etc) is
V7-specific
(V6 has a slightly different file system format) - and I want to install
V6.
Has anyone ever tweaked the programs which VTServer loads to do V6-format
filesystems? I did a quick Google, but didn't see anything.
No biggie if not, it won't be much work to adapt them all, but I figured
I'd
try to avoid re-inventing the wheel...
Noel
I did this once upon a time and, while I've slept since then, I'll try to
dredge up some memories. This was putting 6th Edition on a PDP-11/34,
which still runs except for the RK05 I need to fix One Of These Days.
ISTR that one can generate a 'tape' config file with whatever components
you want/need. That was true for tools, too - I didthis with v6, so I know
there are v6-specific tools somewhere, perhaps on some machine I still have
(and I think I know which one).
I recall finding documentation for it, too, and I think I even know where
it is. I'm hoping it might have a URL in the header/footer, which might
still be extant - if not, I can scan it. I think it's somewhere in the
TUHS site, and not completely obvious so you have to hunt a bit. Cheers --
Ian
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