Unix on MVII; Was Re: MicroVAX-II questions

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sat Mar 9 13:56:54 2002

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> On 9 Mar, Doc wrote:
> >> Linux/VAX runs on QBus machines? Dos it at last run?
> > If I read the status reports correctly, it "partially boots" on
> > several of the QBus VAXen.
> Ohh! That is more than I expected.

  The project is now on SourceForge, and seems to be fairly active
again. But I have *plenty* of Linux boxen....

> That 4BSD/Distributions/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0a stuff is quite easy to
> install, once you got around the the *.Z != *.Z != .gz idiosyncrasy. If

  I know about the *.Z != *.gz but I thought *.Z = *.Z ??

> If you wane make a boot tape, write it with
> PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2.11BSD/maketape.*

  Sounds like I'm busy this week. :^)

> > What about the Ultrix-32M that's archived there?
> There is Ultrix/VAX? I only know about Ultrix/11 in the archive.

  ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/VAX/Distributions/Ultrix-32M/

  Maybe the maketape utils will work with that too. Heck, I may end up
having to populate the VS-II too (nice BA123 w/ 3x RD53, TK50, totally
bare QBus)

  WooHoo!

        Doc
Received on Sat Mar 09 2002 - 13:56:54 GMT

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