On Wed, 14 May 2014, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/14/2014 10:13 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81
disk images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on
an MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
Yes, this works; I've done it many times with several DEC OSs,
targeting both DEC drives and DEC-drive-emulating SCSI and ESDI drives.
I'll go find a system that'll let me copy an image to a SCSI drive with an IDC connector, then. Sweet.
-Dave
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Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On 05/14/2014 10:13 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81
disk images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on
an MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
Yes, this works; I've done it many times with several DEC OSs,
targeting both DEC drives and DEC-drive-emulating SCSI and ESDI drives.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Wed, 14 May 2014, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Right now what are you running? Mr Wilson's E11 does Windows(!) it
also does DOS, and then Linux.
Windows Server (for PXE), DOS, OpenVMS, TOPS-20, TOPS-10, IRIX, 4.3BSD, OS X< OpenBSD, FreeBSD, CP/M (soon).
It only supports 2 of those! ;)
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
So, it seems I can't install RSTS/E from tape using simh (I need to set a
custom disk size to fit it on an RZ23 I think). The RA81 is too big to fit
and I have no idea what size the random SCSI drive lying on my living room
floor is...but I think it's a bit overly large.
I'd love to just do a full install...but I have no idea if I can get a TK50
to work long enough to do that.
Also: e11 doesn't work in DOSbox.
Options:
1). Use a large drive
2). Install linux
3). Copy tape images and e11 over to pentium/233
4). Spend the next 96 hours fiddling with a TK50 continuously
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81 disk
images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on an
MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
-- Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
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http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
From: Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
Also: e11 doesn't work in DOSbox.
E11 doesn't like XMS. Set "xms=false" and "ems=false" in your dosbox-0.74.conf
and you should be golden.
John Wilson
D Bit
Hello!
Right now what are you running? Mr Wilson's E11 does Windows(!) it
also does DOS, and then Linux.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
So, it seems I can't install RSTS/E from tape using simh (I need to set a
custom disk size to fit it on an RZ23 I think). The RA81 is too big to fit
and I have no idea what size the random SCSI drive lying on my living room
floor is...but I think it's a bit overly large.
I'd love to just do a full install...but I have no idea if I can get a TK50
to work long enough to do that.
Also: e11 doesn't work in DOSbox.
Options:
1). Use a large drive
2). Install linux
3). Copy tape images and e11 over to pentium/233
4). Spend the next 96 hours fiddling with a TK50 continuously
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81 disk
images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on an
MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
-- Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
So, it seems I can't install RSTS/E from tape using simh (I need to set a custom disk size to fit it on an RZ23 I think). The RA81 is too big to fit and I have no idea what size the random SCSI drive lying on my living room floor is...but I think it's a bit overly large.
I'd love to just do a full install...but I have no idea if I can get a TK50 to work long enough to do that.
Also: e11 doesn't work in DOSbox.
Options:
1). Use a large drive
2). Install linux
3). Copy tape images and e11 over to pentium/233
4). Spend the next 96 hours fiddling with a TK50 continuously
Any alternate ideas? I'm leaning towards the first. Are the SIMH RA81 disk images anything special or can I shove one directly on a drive on an MSCP-emulating SCSI controller?
-- Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
You were thinking "Who's he?" of course. John Egolf. That's the chap
behind the hobbyist program. Oddly enough whilst waiting for both of
these I remembered that the same company also provided disks
containing an OS, all they needed was the license to be provided.
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 05/14/2014 09:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Okay I have the images, I have a license file. He sent it as a text
file, however he also says its a DCL script. (That's the scripting
language behind VMS, correct?)
Well, atop VMS, but yes/
He also presents instructions on where to go from there, that is how to spin it further.
But has anyone here been successful at doing so using his
instructions, or did they happen to have their own magic for doing so?
I dunno who "he" is, but VMS licenses are typically distributed (these
days) as a couple of lines (actually one line, with continuations) of
DCL, starting with LICENSE REGISTER, followed by the appropriate
parameters. Just run that command, then do LICENSE LOAD, and you should
be good to go.
And of course the important question is restoring the OS from the CD
to the OS disks. Outside of the SIMH steps, is there a page for doing
so, using the Charon freely available emulators?
In the VMS install docs, yes, but you can use the SIMH steps just
fine. Just remember to change vms072.b to vms073.b, if applicable.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
I just paste each license command into my terminal window one at a time and hit enter. Slow but gets them all.
Sent from my iPad
On May 14, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Okay I have the images, I have a license file. He sent it as a text
file, however he also says its a DCL script. (That's the scripting
language behind VMS, correct?) He also presents instructions on where
to go from there, that is how to spin it further.
But has anyone here been successful at doing so using his
instructions, or did they happen to have their own magic for doing so?
And of course the important question is restoring the OS from the CD
to the OS disks. Outside of the SIMH steps, is there a page for doing
so, using the Charon freely available emulators?
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On 05/14/2014 09:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Okay I have the images, I have a license file. He sent it as a text
file, however he also says its a DCL script. (That's the scripting
language behind VMS, correct?)
Well, atop VMS, but yes/
He also presents instructions on where to go from there, that is how to spin it further.
But has anyone here been successful at doing so using his
instructions, or did they happen to have their own magic for doing so?
I dunno who "he" is, but VMS licenses are typically distributed (these
days) as a couple of lines (actually one line, with continuations) of
DCL, starting with LICENSE REGISTER, followed by the appropriate
parameters. Just run that command, then do LICENSE LOAD, and you should
be good to go.
And of course the important question is restoring the OS from the CD
to the OS disks. Outside of the SIMH steps, is there a page for doing
so, using the Charon freely available emulators?
In the VMS install docs, yes, but you can use the SIMH steps just
fine. Just remember to change vms072.b to vms073.b, if applicable.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Okay I have the images, I have a license file. He sent it as a text
file, however he also says its a DCL script. (That's the scripting
language behind VMS, correct?) He also presents instructions on where
to go from there, that is how to spin it further.
But has anyone here been successful at doing so using his
instructions, or did they happen to have their own magic for doing so?
And of course the important question is restoring the OS from the CD
to the OS disks. Outside of the SIMH steps, is there a page for doing
so, using the Charon freely available emulators?
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
