Building PDP-11 Boot Tapes

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Wed May 17 15:37:58 2000

> >OK, I'm feeling lazy. Is it possible to build a PDP-11 TK-50 Boot tape
> >under OpenVMS V7.2?
>
> Yeah, sure it is. Question is, what do you want to boot into?

Now how did I miss adding that little bit of info! For the /73 I'm thinking
Ultrix-11 V3.1 and/or 2.11BSD. I'm also considering UNIX V7M for the /44,
but with that I'd build it on an emulator and then copy the RL02 images to
RL02 disk packs.

It looks like both Ultrix-11 and 2.11BSD will support TK50's, though I think
they're likely to have some problems with the way I've got the /73's
Hardware configured. If need be I guess I can always break out the /23+ as
it's the most standard DEC PDP-11 config I've got.

My concern with the /73 is that it uses a WQESD/04 to bootstrap the system,
the Harddrives, CD-ROM and TZ30 hang on a Viking SCSI board, and the RX50's
are hooked up to a RQDX3.

                        Zane
Received on Wed May 17 2000 - 15:37:58 BST