On 2016-10-25 10:16 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> I'll start with getting VTServer to run under V6 (my only Unix, don't
> have anything later :-)
So, I just got VTServer runnin under V6: ...
Is there any interest in all this? If so, I can put together a web page with
the V6-verion VTServer s
> I'll start with getting VTServer to run under V6 (my only Unix, don't
> have anything later :-)
So, I just got VTServer runnin under V6: it successfully loaded a memory
diagnostic from the 'server', into the 'client', using 'vtboot' on the
latter. (Both running on emulated machines, for
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
> The fact that the installation procedures for V6 and V7 are wholly
> different,
> in their technical detail, was apparently not well known.
>
> The 'Setting up Unix' documents are more checklists, they don't go into a
> lot
> of detail as to
The fact that the installation procedures for V6 and V7 are wholly different,
in their technical detail, was apparently not well known.
The 'Setting up Unix' documents are more checklists, they don't go into a lot
of detail as to what is actually happening, so I have prepared two pages on
the Comp
> Yes, I have those, thanks; those are the 1-block programs I mentioned
> to Warren:
> One can't actually boot V6 Unix directly from a V6 distribution tape,
> all one can do is copy the disk images from the tape to the disk; one
> then boots from the disk. (Although now that I look, there is
> Here are some notes I made a while back, when I looked at it:
> ...
> Block 2-xx - gubbish, apparently inodes, code, etc?
So I just realized something's incomplete here. There's an intermediate stage
(loading 'xxyy', where 'xx' is "tm" or "ht", and 'yy' is "rk", "rp" or "hp").
Thos
> From: Warren Toomey
> This doc: .. describes a way to install from tape, but it seems like it
> does a block copy of a tape image to the disk.
Yup, that's the standard V6 install from tape. It uses the two programs I
mentioned in the last message; first mboot (which produces the '='
All, I had a look at the docs on V6 Unix. This doc:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/doc/start/start
describes a way to install from tape, but it seems like it does
a block copy of a tape image to the disk.
Also, in
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Ken_
> From: Dennis Boone
> The sources for the V6 versions of the tmrk et al programs seem to be
> here:
Yes, I have those, thanks; those are the 1-block programs I mentioned to
Warren:
>> The only V6 boot mechanisms are 1-block programs that go into block 0
>> of device 0 and wh
> > I know I made it work and booted V6 on my 11/34.
> I'll start with getting VTServer to run under V6 (my only Unix, don't
> have anything later :-), so if you turn up whatever you used to boot
> V6, it would probably still be useful.
The sources for the V6 versions of the tmrk et al progra
> From: Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
> To load V6, you need to build a virtual tape which replicates the V6
> tape.
Err, there's the problem. The V6 boot tape consists of 3 'dd' images of RK05
V6 file systems (one each root, source, and doc), with a 'boot block' on the
tape which ca
Hah, the file
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Tools/Tapes/Vtserver/v7_standalone.tar.gz
has the source code for the standalone tools including boot and vtboot.pdp.
So, given a working V7 environment, you should be able to rebuild these
and possibly make them work in a V6 environment.
Alternati
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
> Hi all, an early version of VTServer is still at:
> http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Tools/Tapes/Vtserver/
>
> I think some others took it and extended; Fred van Kempen springs to
> mind.
>
> To load V6, you need to build a virtual tape w
Hi all, an early version of VTServer is still at:
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Tools/Tapes/Vtserver/
I think some others took it and extended; Fred van Kempen springs to
mind.
To load V6, you need to build a virtual tape which replicates the
V6 tape. Hopefully this is easy to do.
However,
> From: "Ian S. King"
> ISTR that one can generate a 'tape' config file with whatever components
> you want/need.
Right, I saw that, but I need the V6 components...
> I know there are v6-specific tools somewhere ... I think it's somewhere
> in the TUHS site, and not completel
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
> So, I'm trying to do what VTServer was invented for - load Unix into an
> actual
> PDP-11, over its serial line, when one doesn't have machine-readable Unix
> on
> any mass storage for the machine.
>
> However, all the initial code that VTSer
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