Sorry to be a pest but now I am getting an error. I got the same one using a pre-built system I found on Bitsavers.
>run bad > BAD>db0: BAD -- DB0: Unrecoverable error -65. BAD>du0: > > BAD -- DU0: Total bad blocks= 0. BAD>^Z >run bru > BRU>/rew ms0: du0: BRU - Starting Tape 1 on MS0: BRU - End of Tape 1 on MS0: BRU - Completed BRU>PuTTY RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 BL87 128.KW System:"Baseline" >RED DU:=SY: >RED DU:=LB: >RED DU:=SP: >MOU DU0:"RSX11MPBL87" >@[2,54]BASTART.CMD 12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure 12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure 12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure 12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure 12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure 12:46:19 *** GEN Checkpoint space allocation failure I apologize for my lack of knowledge. I am eager to learn but I have never even seen a real PDP-11 let alone use one. I am just trying to learn vicariously through simh. Thanks Ray On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > On 2017-05-07 21:30, Ray Jewhurst wrote: > >> Thank you very much. For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or >> any other OS for that matter) conversion chart for the various devices? >> It would be quite handy. >> > > I'm not aware of any. This have always been a bit of a problem in general, > as the actual hardware have other names than the device driver names, and > in some cases the device driver names are different in different DEC OSes. > But since I think most people should not try and play around with odd > disks nowadays anyway, you mostly only needs the MSCP disks, which is DU in > all DEC OSes, as far as I can remember (except for Unix derivatives). > > simh is a different (new) system, with yet a different naming scheme, > which further complicates things. > > simh seem to have mostly adopted the Unix driver names for the hardware > devices. :-) > > Trying to create a list, while possible, is some work, since DEC had lots > of types of devices... > > Start with manuals and hardware documentation. Try to figure out what > device simh pretends, and then read the DEC documentation based on what the > actual device was called at DEC. > > Johnny > > >> Thanks again, >> Ray >> >> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 2017-05-07 21:05, Ray Jewhurst wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+ >> (actually >> first of any RSX-11!) and I am follow the instructions at >> http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen >> <http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen> and I am having >> problems right >> out of the gate. When I try to copy the baseline system this is >> what I get: >> >> >> [...] >> >> Whatever instructions you are reading are wrong then. >> >> How about just test that /DEV switch which is mentioned, and you'd >> get a list of what devices are available. >> >> MSCP disks (rq and ra) are named DU, not DB. DB is RP04/05/06 disks. >> >> That said, MSCP disks are good, since then you can use any size on >> the disk. >> However, I'd also set it up as an 11/93, and not 11/73. >> >> Johnny >> >> -- >> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus >> || on a psychedelic trip >> email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> || >> Reading murder books >> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol >> >> >> > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: [email protected] || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol >
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