2.11BSD on PDP-11/53

From: jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de <(jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de)>
Date: Sun May 27 05:39:56 2001

On 26 May, Jonathan Engdahl wrote:
> Last night I used Warren Toomey's VTserver to download the 2.11BSD boot partition to a cold PDP-11/53 that I put together from the following parts:
>
> -KDJ11-PB CPU board from a DECserver 500 (bought for $10 on eBay)
> -Andromeda UDC11 MFM disk controller (like RQDX3?) from my 11/23
> -Maxtor XT-2190 hard drive from a MicroVAX (head 13 bad, so only 130 meg)
> -DSD StackPac chassis and front panel
No DELQA?

> I am not a UNIX expert. I need a place to ask ignorant* questions,
> and get meaningful and prompt answers. Is this the right place?
You may also try the PUPS mailing list. See
http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/

> If I tell Kermit (my console) to switch to 7 bits even parity, I can
> read stuff again. [...] I grepped for "stty" in / and /etc but didn't
> find anything useful looking.
Uhh. I can remember that there was a mail on the PUPS mailing list with
a patch to change the console to 8n1. Have a look at the archive...

> I still can boot RT-11 from the floppy, but when I try to boot UNIX
> from the hard drive it halts. I did "dd if=/mdec/rauboot of=/dev/ra0a
> count=1"
Use /dev/rra0a ... See page 6 of 2.11BSD/setup.ps.

> I partitioned the hard drive with 4.5 meg at ra0a, 4 meg at ra0b, and
> the rest at ra0d.
I recommend a biger a partition. (8 to 12 MB)

> I need a way to download the rest of the UNIX tar files over the
> console line.
Use the floppy? Split the tar files, dd them to floppies, dd them back
on the PDP11 and do somthing like "cat x* | tar xpf -" on the PDP11.
-- 
tschuess,
          Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
Received on Sun May 27 2001 - 05:39:56 BST

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