Here's my ini file : attach rq0 vms46sys.dsk attach rq1 vms040stb.rx3
attach ts bb-bt05c-be_vms_v4_4_c1986.tap attach cs vms044mup.rx1 set ma0 enable set ma0 2m attach ma0 vaxmem0 set ma1 enable set ma1 2m attach ma1 vaxmem1 set cpu idle b rq0 /R5:800 On 3/23/18, Mike Stramba <mikestra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
