On Wed, 17 May 2000, Zane H. Healy wrote:
OK, I'm feeling lazy. Is it possible to build a
PDP-11 TK-50 Boot tape
under OpenVMS V7.2?
What can I say, I really don't feel like getting my DECstation 5000/133
fully up and running with NetBSD, moving the TZ30 from my PDP-11/73 to the
DECstation, making the tape, then moving the TZ30 back just to build a tape.
Sure - there is definitely a way to take your raw data and dump it out to
an unlabelled tape. But it's been so long since I've used VMS, that I
don't remember what that way is. However, see comments below ...
Hmm, maybe I should just use an emulator to build UNIX
V7M RL02 images for
my /44 and then use a VAX to make the diskpacks :^)
If that is an option for you, you should do that. The bootstrap and
standalone utilities only support TU10/TU16, TE16, and TS11 tape drives;
there is no TMSCP support at all in V7m. If you key in a TMSCP bootstrap
by hand, you'll probably be able to read in the bootstrap and get to the
Boot
:
prompt, but you won't be able to do anything after that, since boot won't
load anything from a TMSCP tape.....
--Pat.