Building PDP-11 Boot Tapes

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Wed May 17 16:31:12 2000

> > Hmm, maybe I should just use an emulator to build UNIX V7M RL02 images for
> > my /44 and then use a VAX to make the diskpacks :^)
>
> If that is an option for you, you should do that. The bootstrap and
> standalone utilities only support TU10/TU16, TE16, and TS11 tape drives;
> there is no TMSCP support at all in V7m. If you key in a TMSCP bootstrap
> by hand, you'll probably be able to read in the bootstrap and get to the
>
> Boot
> :
>
> prompt, but you won't be able to do anything after that, since boot won't
> load anything from a TMSCP tape.....
>
> --Pat.
>

In the case of the /44 it's also the easiest, as I don't feel like dragging
my TU81+ home from storage, or fighting with a SCSI tape drive. I've got a
MicroVAX 3 with a RLV12 in the rack next to the /44 for doing backups of my
RL02's, so the hardest part of doing it this way will be building the packs
on the emulator.

                        Zane
Received on Wed May 17 2000 - 16:31:12 BST

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