Thanks Bob,
I thought I had done exactly that yesterday and it did not boot, but before
replying I thought I should try again, just to be sure, and it worked!
I now realise that I just attached the file to rq0, whereas yesterday I
used rq3, simply because I am used to doing that on my simulated VAX.
Thanks you your help. I should be able to make progress from here.
Peter
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 15:01, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
I haven?t used this particular CDROM so I can only
speculate, but here
are a couple of things that might help ?
RT11 has an architectural limit of 32Mb per file system. Most disk
drives, even way back then, are bigger than that and have to be partitioned
if you want to use all the space. This is an RT11 thing, not a CDROM nor a
PDP-11 nor a simh, feature.
I assume the first partition on the CDROM is bootable. You?d CDROM
image to simh as a rq device and boot it. Once RT11 is running, you can
use the RT11 ?SET DUn UNIT=n PART=n? command to assign the other DUn units
to partitions on the same CDROM. Check the RT11 commands manual for a
description of the SET DU command.
Hope that helps, It?s kind of vague, I know, but I haven?t used these
CDROM images.
Bob
*From:* owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] *On
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*Subject:* Re: [HECnet] DECnet-RT?
Thanks to Ray, I now have the v1 and v5 of the RT-11 CD (well, the ISO
file of it). However, I am confused by the nature of the virtual CD.
I have extracted the file RTV5RL.03 and started an installation using it.
I have not continued with the installation, but it looks like it should
work.So far,so good.
However, the file README.1st refers to there being several RT11
partitions on the CD and that some of these are bootable. I have never
come across multiple partitions on a CD and I don't know how to access
them. The SIMH ATTACH command appears to only connect to files, not
partitions on a disk.
So I am stuck. Any suggestions?
Peter Allan