1 Mar
2008
1 Mar
'08
10:51 a.m.
Just out of curiosity I installed RSTS/E 9.6 on a SIMH PDP-11 and
thought I'll try to install DECNET 4.1, but I've come up empty trying
to find any info on how that is done. I know almost nothing about
RSTS/E yet but I'm trying to slowly learn.
I figured out that I could RESTORE INSTAL.BCK from the DECNET 4.1 tape
image and that resulted in just a few files, one of which was
DECNET.COM. That appeared to be an installation script, but it is not
clear if that is something that is intended to be manually invoked, or
if something else invokes it. I tried invoking it manually with some
guesses for the parameters, but that didn't get me anywhere.
Is there an installation guide on the net somewhere that I haven't
been able to find?
Does anyone have a sample SIMH session transcript showing the proper
way to install DECNET 4.1 on RSTS/E 9.6?
3 Mar
3 Mar
4:54 p.m.
You need to start your RSTS installation over completely.
Simply restoring INSTAL.BCK will create a huge mess.
What you should be doing to install layered products is the command
@[0,1]INSTAL DECNET
This will start the RSTS/E automated install procedure and subsequent
configuration script.
Note: RSTS/E 9.6 cannot be installed on a disk larger than 512MB. There
is a bug that comes up when attempting to install layered products (they
will hang during random parts of the installation script) if you violate
this. DECnet does this especially, when attempting to detect network
devices.
My suggested product order of installation is:
RSTS/E 9.6
DECnet/E 4.1
Language products.
FMS-11 (depends on languages to be installed first)
I must also stress that each language be tested to compile and run
programs before installation of FMS-11 should you choose to install it.
Good luck,
Julian
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Glen Slick wrote:
Just out of curiosity I installed RSTS/E 9.6 on a SIMH
PDP-11 and
thought I'll try to install DECNET 4.1, but I've come up empty trying
to find any info on how that is done. I know almost nothing about
RSTS/E yet but I'm trying to slowly learn.
I figured out that I could RESTORE INSTAL.BCK from the DECNET 4.1 tape
image and that resulted in just a few files, one of which was
DECNET.COM. That appeared to be an installation script, but it is not
clear if that is something that is intended to be manually invoked, or
if something else invokes it. I tried invoking it manually with some
guesses for the parameters, but that didn't get me anywhere.
Is there an installation guide on the net somewhere that I haven't
been able to find?
Does anyone have a sample SIMH session transcript showing the proper
way to install DECNET 4.1 on RSTS/E 9.6?
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