RSX-11M v4.1 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Aug 1998

On Aug 18,  7:57, Zane H. Healy wrote:
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  Subject: RSX-11M v4.1
 OK, last night I tried copying the damaged RL02's that contain what is
 supposed to be a RSX-11M v4.1 distribution.  Unfortunatly two of the disks
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  seem to be damaged.  I was able to recover 3/4 of one,
and boot it in the
 Supnik emulator, the other wouldn't even mount.

 Now, I've got a question about these packs, and thier labels.

 RSX-11M V4.1			|
 	RSXM35 V1		| I was able to copy 8,638,976 bytes of
 	RLUTIL V2		| 10,485,760.  It will boot.
 Copied 06/19/84			| Fault light now comes on when try to load
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 RSX-11M V4.1
 	EXCPRV V1
 	HLPDCL V2
 Copied 06/19/84

 RSX-11M V4.1
 	MCRSRC V1
 Copied 06/19/84

 RSX-11M V4.1			|
 	ACSQ22 V1		| Fault light comes on when I try to load it.
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  	UPDATE V2		|
 	ACS MODS V3		|
 Copied 06/19/84 rev 06/14/84	|

 Unfortuntaly I suspect that the first pack is the most important, and based
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  on the SYSGEN documentation, I need the first three
packs to do a SYSGEN.
 What on earth is the third pack? 
MCR is the standard command line interpreter, prior to DCL, and that disk
is the source for building it.

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  Also, is this the standard way for a RSX-11M
distribution to be packaged? 
No, it looks like you have an RL01 distribution (which IIRC came on 6
packs) but copied to RL02s, two RL01s to a pack.  It's been a long time,
but I think RL02 distributions were 4 packs, called something like RSXM35
(that's a bootable baseline minimal system, with the SYSGEN stuff on it,
like yours), MAPSRC (sources to build a mapped system) UNMSRC (to build an
unmapped system) and the last pack had all the extra software (EDT, DCL,
and friends).  The fourth pack you have is possibly an update and may not
be necessary.  But my memory may be playing its usual tricks.

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  Once I've got archival copies made of all this
I'll be more willing to play
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  with the packs.  On a positive note, I can play with
the images in the
 emulator while copying them.  I think I've still got over a dozen packs to
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  go through.  I'll probably finish the RL02's
tonite. 
Best of luck!  I suspect you have enough to rebuild the system, if you can
read the packs, and perhaps there are more amongst the ones you have yet to
check.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York