You need to convert the foo.tar file to a foo.tap before simh's mag tape reader will understand it.
If you want to skip that step, attach the foo.tar (or foo.tar.gz) file as a virtual disk. The open it as a raw device. Clem On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Will Senn <will.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think I may have asked this a couple of years ago, but I am unable to > find the email conversation, so I'll ask it again from a position of > experience and greater but still lacking knowledge... here's the background > - I am running a v7 instance in simh that I am quite pleased with. However, > I saw somewhere where someone was running some additional software on their > instance and of course, I just had to have it for my own. Unfortunately, > it's not clear how they got the software, where it's from, or how they got > it running. There are hints that the stuff came from early bsd. So... I > thought I would try getting the bsd source on to my v7 instance to see if I > could compile it and play around with it. There's a 1bsd.tar.gz in the tuhs > archive. It being a tar file, I figured I could: > > gunzip 1bsd.tar.gz > > in simh: > > att mt0 1bsd.tar > > in v7, which defaults to mt1 for some reason, (not a configured device on > my system and isn't created by make tm in /dev): > > tar vxfb /dev/rmt0 1 > nboot.ini-13> boot rp0 > > Invalid magtape record length, PC: 002400 (MOV 177776,R0) > > or > > tar xv0 > > nboot.ini-13> boot rp0 > > Invalid magtape record length, PC: 002400 (MOV 177776,R0) > > I don't know why the nboot.ini-13> boot rp0 artifact is appearing (prolly > some buffer flush when the sim aborts)... but of more concern is why I > can't access the tar. I'm sure it is a gap in my understanding, so I'd > appreciate some help. > > Thanks, > > Will > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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