> On May 21, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > Since this is related to getting 2.11BSD up on my PDP-11/73 I figure it's
> > Semi-OT.
> >
> > OK, I figured since I'd had to pull the TZ30 I might as well just plug it
> > into the DECstation 5000/133 I've got. I take it that such a beasty won't
> > recognize a TZ30? Doing a "CNFG 3" turned up the two RZ25's in the thing,
> > but not the tapedrive, and I couldn't see it from Ultrix 4.3 either.
>
> Hmm...can't help you with that; never tried it. I do remember,
> however, reading something recently (here? or maybe NetBSD's
> port-vax list?) about the TZ30 not being a well-behaved SCSI citizen
> and needing some tweaks in somebody's (NetBSD's?) SCSI driver somewhere
> to work properly.
>
> Coincidentally though, Zane, I'm doing the same thing tonight...I
> just finished putting together an 11/73 and now (in parallel with a
> few other things) I'm trying to figure out how to get the
> distribution onto a TK50.
You can fit the entire distribution on a TK50 tape. I used
a DECstation 5000/20 running Ultrix to produce a TK50 tape
that will boot on my 11/73. There is a C program that comes
with the 2.11 distribution that can be used to build a
distribution tape. You just need to compile it on your system,
it probably only runs under Unix, and point it at your tape
drive. The process of producing a tape takes around 20 or
30 minutes, if I remember correctly.
The biggest problem that I had in the entire process was
flakey disks on the 11/73. The standard 2.11 distribution
doesn't handle bad blocks, so if you are using a RD5X drive
it had better be free of bad blocks, at least in the first
few cylinders where the root and swap file systems are
placed.
--
Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
Professor (780) 492-4584
Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
Received on Sun May 21 2000 - 19:31:50 BST