I'm sure those three standalone backup tapes are TU58 images which aren't really "tapes" in the usual SIMH sense of the word. TU58 images are a little more like "disks" in the emulator world.
You do not attach them to "TS". I think you attach them to "TD0" in a simulated 11/750 or maybe just maybe a 11/730. I do not know if they would work on a 11/780 or if 11/780 ever supported booting from TU58. I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with using a different version of standalone backup (later than VMS 4.4) to do the restore. If you wanted to be super historically correct on a 11/780 in the mid-80's you would could be using the RX01 standalone backup floppies. Tim N3QE On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Henk van de Kamer <s...@vandekamer.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list, so forgive me if I do things wrong... > > For an article about the history of prompts I want to make screendumps of > all systems I worked on. In 1986 (may be 1987) I learned Pascal on the > VAX-11/785 (I think) on the university. > > So two days ago I started a journey to install VAX/VMS 4.4 -- because that > is the most probable version used -- on a VAX-11/780 using the Simh > emulator under Debian Stretch. That was the first problem because the man > page of the vax780 command said that ka655.bin was not included. I found > the ka655x.bin in the Simh git. Later I discovered that the man page is > probably wrong and I must use vmb.exe instead. > > After searching I found the bb-bt05c-be tape [1] which contains DEC > VAX/VMS V4.4 BIN 16MT9 (C)1986 [2]. After a lot of trial, problems and > searching I finally discovered that I need the Standalone Backup and a > procedure for v3.0 [3]. Another searched and I got three tapes [4]: > > BE-CT97A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 1 OF 3 > BE-CT98A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 2 OF 3 > BE-CT99A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 3 OF 3 > > I adapted the given ini to the following -- the complete ini with the same > adaptions don't give any difference: > > load vmb.exe > set rp0 rp06 > set rp1 rp06 > attach rp0 stb40.rp6 > set console log=logs/vms44.log > > Then the procedure: > > hvdkamer@obelix:~/vax$ vax780 vax780.ini > > VAX780 simulator V3.8-1 > Overwrite last track? [N] > Logging to file "logs/vms44.log" > sim> boot rp1 > Loading boot code from vmb.exe > > [ctrl-E] > Simulation stopped, PC: 00000E8D (BITL #1000,4(R7)) > sim> attach ts bb-bt05c-be.tap > sim> cont > [Enter] > > > And there it hangs. I downloaded the v3.0 tape used in the example, but > that results in the same. > > The above looks the most promising of all examples I tried. Most used > options which didn't work or crashed the emulator. Can someone point me in > the right direction to install the operating system. Thanks for any help. > > > > [1] ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/magtapes/ > [2] ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/ > magtapes/labels.txt > [3] http://simh.trailing-edge.narkive.com/P8L1m0CF/problem-booti > ng-vms-1-5#post7 > [4] http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html > > -- > > Henk van de Kamer > http://www.vandekamer.com/ > http://www.hetlab.tk/ > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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