22 Dec
2021
22 Dec
'21
7:28 p.m.
On 2021-12-22 19:14, Paul Koning wrote:
oh... Weird. So it must not be an original distribution tape then.
Maybe someone created a BRU tape after running PREGEN? Check you you
mount that tape /FOREIGN and see with BRU ("BRU /REW/DIR MU:") if you
can read the thing. Might be that you just restore that tape then, and
then run the NETGEN on it.
Otherwise it's a bit annoying, but I could create a copy of the official
distribution tape.
Johnny
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On Dec 22, 2021, at 1:07 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
Hi, Paul. Sorry I didn't answer earlier. Saw some other mails I should have responded
too as well, but been a bit busy.
Anyway. 4.0 is way old and have various issues you do not want or need. Locate M+ 4.6
instead. That's basically the only version I'd recommend.
And yes, M+ is definitely easier to deal with than 11M.
You can find both tapes at http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/magtapes/rsx11mplus/
Basically you want BB-J0830-01.L01_RSX11M+_V4.6_BRU_1999.tap, which should be bootable,
and contain all you need for M+ itself. There is a second tape
(BB-J0830-01.M01_RSX11M+_V4.6_1999.tap), which might be the second tape if the whole thing
came on two tapes. (I got M+ 4.6 on TK50, which just came on a single cartridge.)
Then you want DECnet, which is decnet11mp46-netkit.tap. The manuals are online, but of
course you can also just ask. And since you seem to have already managed once, it should
hopefully not be too complicated.
I used the DECnet 4.0 kit because I could not make sense out of that 4.6 kit. The
installation procedure in the manual (DECnet/RSX 4.5, which says it's for M+ 4.3)
doesn't work at all with that tape. It says to use FLX to copy PREGEN.CMD from the
tape, but the tape isn't anything FLX understands. Instead, it seems to be an ANSI
labeled tape with 3 files on it, the first one named "INSTALL". Is that a BRU
tape? Or a DSC tape? What do I do with it?