I wanted to thank everyone for all the advice my system is up and running. Next up learning more and then doing a netgen.
Thanks again Ray On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Mark Pizzolato <[email protected]> wrote: > Since simh autosizes MSCP disks, if you keep using the same original disk > > Images you might have created initially, you may not be changing anything > > if you keep on attaching the same disk image after you change the disk > type. > > > > The output of sim> SHOW RQ will show how big the disks will appear to the > > operating system once you start things running. > > > > *From:* Simh [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Johnny > Billquist > *Sent:* Sunday, May 7, 2017 4:31 PM > *To:* Ray Jewhurst <[email protected]> > *Cc:* simh <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6 > > > > The 128k thing is physical memory, which is sonething else than size of > the disk. There is an option in simh in the config to explicitly tell how > large disk you want. Check the documentation. > > Use a disk of at least 1g, and we can move on to the next problem, which > is going to be the number of file headers on the disk, unless you read that > manual I gave the link to. > > Easy howto pages on the internet are nice, but sooner or later you need to > read the docs and understand what you are doing. > > Johnny > > Ray Jewhurst <[email protected]> skrev: (8 maj 2017 01:08:19 CEST) > > I tried running every size disk imaginable and I still get the same error > and it still states 128KW. The small disk I tried was 159MB. BTW, that > prebuilt system also had the same error and 128KW again and it was a approx > 10MB Massbus disk running on a 11/45.Could this be a bug? I am following > everything to a T. Should I try a non-plus sysgen to see if I get the same > error? > > Doing my best, > > Ray > > > > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2017-05-07 23:01, Alan Frisbie wrote: > > On 05/07/2017 01:21 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote: > > > RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 BL87 128.KW <http://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 > > > > This means that the disk you are running from (DU0:) does not > have enough free space for RSX to allocate a checkpoint file. > > > Ah! Yes, of course. Thanks for that, Alan. Didn't even think about the > possibility that the disk would be that small, since he was using MSCP. > > Ray, start over, and create disk image files that are larger. > > Start over and tell SIMH to make DU0: (rq0) larger. I would > suggest at least 32 MB if you plan to do anything useful with > the system. Don't go above 500 MB, however, as the ODS-1 disk > structures can't handle anything that large. > > > No, ODS-1 handles larger disks fine. The limit is 8G. If you go above > that, there is no harm, but the disk will just be truncated to 8G anyway, > so no point in going larger. > I would suggest something around 2G or so, and you're set for life. > (Personally I run with four 8G drives, but then again, I'm not exactly > normal when it comes to RSX...) > > Johnny > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > > > > -- > Skickat från min Android-enhet med K-9 Mail. Ursäkta min fåordighet. >
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