I have VMS4 on Win7 running from this page : http://www.9track.net/simh/vax782/
I'm using the win32 executable Vax782 from that page. I haven't tried compiling the 782 on a Linux box yet. Mike On 3/23/18, Tim Shoppa <tsho...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
