Duplicating an RSX-11M+ system disk.

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sun Jul 2 14:22:00 2000

>I have a bit of a weird problem, I'm trying to make a 2nd bootable
>system disk containig RSX-11M+.
>
>I have an 11/83 with 2 RD53's and 1 RD54, and the system is on one
>of the RD53's. I booted [6,54]brusys.sys and then used DSC to copy
>the contents to the 2nd RD53. DSC did not report any error.
>Then when trying to boot du2 (the 2nd RD53), nothing happens besides
>a number of retries to access the boot information.
>
>DSC is supposed to copy the boot information as well as the data,
>so I'm wondering what I do wrong.

Which version of 11M+ are you using? DSC became "unsupported" in recent.
versions, the "supported" way of doing what you want is BRU. DSC isn't
even included in the last few binary releases.

(Thank the heavens that you aren't having to deal with PRESERV or
ROLLIN!)

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Received on Sun Jul 02 2000 - 14:22:00 BST

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