VAX 11/725

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon Dec 6 18:39:30 2004

>
> Heinz Wolter <h.wolter_at_sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > I wonder if it is possible to load BSD (quasisaurus) on TU58, as I have
> > no 9 track take or ethernet on the system.
>
> One TU58 cassette holds 256 KB of data. The root filesystem is about
> 5 MB, /usr about 21 MB. You do the math. That's just the binaries, more
> for source.

Presumably, therefore, running it from a single R80 disk is not really
practical either (at least not if you want to have the sources, or at
least enough to rebuilt the kernel, on the disk).

-tony
Received on Mon Dec 06 2004 - 18:39:30 GMT