[HECnet] Re: RSX-11M v4.8 RK06/RK07 kit?

On 12/10/23 22:01, Johnny Billquist wrote: I have the tape image that's floating around. But see below. LSSM has several machines with RK07s, and I have one at home. We have a great many RK07 disk packs. (like 40 or 50) Yes, I've done that. But is it not the case that the sysgen command procedures are different for the different disk distributions, due to the way the files are broken up between volumes? The v4.8 RL distribution specifically asks for the different volumes on DL1: and DL2:. For instance, on my first PDP-11 back in the 1980s, I had an RSX-11M v4.2 distribution tape that was "the RL kit" that restored onto five (or was it four) RL01 packs, and you booted the first one and ran your sysgen. But there was also the "big disk kit" which would run on any single disk that was big enough. So I'm under the impression that the different kits, for different types of disks, have different sysgen scripts for the way the files are split amongst the volumes when restored from tape. SO, what makes it necessary to have that media is the ability to run a sysgen on a system running on an RK07 disk. I've created a 4.8 system disk on RL02s and copied it to an RK07 pack, but now I'd like to do a sysgen (adding hardware) and the sysgen scripts are asking for RL packs to be mounted, and there are no RL02s on that system. I could add an RL02 to that system, temporarily, but that would make a mess on the exhibit floor and we need to keep it in touring configuration. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA