RL02 version of UNIX6?

[John Forecast]

> On Feb 6, 2017, at 10:13 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> CORRECTION:
> 
> Running simH on a $9.95 Next Thing Co CHIP.
> 
> 1.  I built an RL01 disk with RSX11/M that boots within simH using the
> files I found online.
> 
> set cpu 11/40
> set cpu 64K
> set rl0 writeenabled
> set rl0 rl01
> set rl1 writeenabled
> set rl1 rl01
> set rl2 writeenabled
> set rl2 rl01
> set rl3 writeenabled
> set rl3 rl01
> attach rl0 rsxm32.rl01
> attach rl1 excprv.rl01
> attach rl2 mcrsrc.rl01
> attach rl3 rlutil.rl01
> boot r1
> 
> [set the time and date]
>> ins $boo
>> boo [1,54]rsx11m
> 
> 1.5. Within RSX11/M make it boot into the mapped version each time -
> (after the acs command wait for a response that the checkpoint file is
> inactive):
> 
>> acs sy:/blks=0
>> sav /wb
> 
> 2.  I installed a blank RL02 disk (rlRSX11M.dsk is a blank RL02)
> 
> 3.  I downloaded the tape from bitsavers with the program that copies from
> RL01 to RL02
> BB-L974F-BC_RSX11M_4.5_BRU64K.tap
> 
> 4.  Created a simh script to load up the tape. I called it
> RSX-11_copy2RL02.ini:
> 
> set cpu 11/40
> set cpu 256K
> set rl0 writeenabled
> set rl0 rl01
> set rl1 writeenabled
> set rl1 rl02
> attach rl0 rsxm32.rl01
> attach rl1 rlRSX11M.dsk
> attach TQ0 -r BB-L974F-BC_RSX11M_4.5_BRU64K.tap
> b TQ0
> 
> This took me into the tape utlity.    I set the date and then entered the
> command
> 
>        first device is dl0:
>        second device is dl1:
> 
>> run bru
> BRU> /init dl0: dl1:
> 
> 5.  I fired up PDPGUI and used the Tools --> Read/write disk images utility
> to copy the RL02 disk to an actual RL02 disk on my PDP 11/40 with M9312 ROM
> monitor running
> 
> Note that you have to play around a little with the disk building process,
> this is the best order of steps.  Make sure your system is up and running
> and your drive is ready to be written to.  Open the terminal window and
> make sure you're ok.  You can use it to watch the progress.
> 1.  First set the controller type, unit, device
> 2.  Reload Driver button
> This will open a window to load the program, and then a MACRO-11 window.
> You should next see the disk utility program being downloaded via the
> terminal window
> 3.  Once this is done, you'll see the first <START OF BLOCK> printed on the
> terninal, that means your're ready to go.
> 4.  Choose the disk image using the Load Image File button
> 5.  Make sure you're starting at sector 0
> 6.  Press the top middle button to write the image.
> 
> You'll see activity on both the terminal and your front panel, drive light
> will blink once for each block.
> 
> Bill
> 
> Bill

	Excellent. Looks like you should be up and running pretty soon.

  John.