Booting a PDP-11/04 without drives?

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From: Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia_at_hp.com>
Date: Thu May 27 10:31:16 2004

Hello list,
Is it possible to boot a 11/04 (16kW core) without any drives?

This may just be fantasizing..
1. Connect a PC to the PDP via the console
2. Have a program (a'la vtserver) serve out a disk image
3. Toggle in a bootstrap loader to load from that virtual disk
4. Jump to start of image

Possible?

/wai-sun
Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 10:31:16 BST

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