2 Jan
2004
2 Jan
'04
1:26 a.m.
I'm doing some research on what it'll take to get 211BSD installed on my
PDP after I get all the hardware installed and working correctly. It
looks like I'm going to need to make a boot tape to install it. Is there
any other method that I could use?
I'm also assuming that I will need to get a TK50, a TK70 or the like. I'm
going to be installing this system with a SCSI controller that speaks MSCP
and (hopefully) TMSCP, and I was really hoping that I could get away with
creating the installation tape with the SCSI DAT drive I have...
Thanks in advance!
Back to reading about the KDJ11-B,
Chris
2 Jan
2 Jan
2:37 a.m.
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:26:07 -0600
"Christopher Cureau" <chrisc(a)addpower.com> wrote:
Is there any other method that I could use?
Create a disk image with an emulator and push it to the PDP-11 with
vtserver?
I'm also assuming that I will need to get a TK50,
a TK70 or the like.
Or a TU80 or a TS11 or ... see setup.ps for supported tapes.
I'm going to be installing this system with a SCSI
controller that
speaks MSCP and (hopefully) TMSCP, and I was really hoping that I
could get away with creating the installation tape with the SCSI DAT
drive I have...
This may work. You should take care to create the boot tape the
right
way. The dd(1) method from the HOWTO file doesn't work. Use maketape.
This ensures that all files are written with the correct block sizes to
the tape.
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tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
2:38 a.m.
Christopher Cureau wrote:
I'm doing some research on what it'll take to
get 211BSD installed on my
PDP after I get all the hardware installed and working correctly. It
looks like I'm going to need to make a boot tape to install it. Is there
any other method that I could use?
I used vtserver (http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl/vtserver.htm) for
this exact purpose last week.
You will need a PC with a serial port and some sort of unixish O/S.
I've used it with success under Solaris and Linux.
4:08 a.m.
I'm also assuming that I will need to get a TK50, a
TK70 or the like. I'm
going to be installing this system with a SCSI controller that speaks MSCP
and (hopefully) TMSCP, and I was really hoping that I could get away with
creating the installation tape with the SCSI DAT drive I have...
I'm definitely not the right person to be making comments about 2.11BSD, however, I
don't see why a SCSI DAT Drive wouldn't work in place of a TK50. I've
installed RSTS/E and some of the layered products from DAT tapes. Though I still
can't get DECnet/E to install from a DAT... (been threating to get back to working on
that this weekend)
Based on what little I've looked at 2.11BSD (I've never gotten it installed), I
think that you can simply build the tape on a Unix box following instructions that are out
there. I ran into two problems, I was trying to build the tape on a VMS box, and my SCSI
controller wasn't supported at the time.
BTW, if you're going SCSI, a TZ30 would be a potential option instead of a TK50
(though I prefer cleaning TK50 drives to TZ30 drives).
Zane
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