Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Ray Jewhurst
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 wrote: > Since simh autosizes MSCP disks, if you keep using the same original disk > > Images you might have

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Mark Pizzolato
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

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
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

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Ray Jewhurst
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 eve

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
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 System:"Baseline" >RED DU:=SY: >RED DU:=LB: >RED DU:=SP: >MOU DU0:"RSX11MPBL87" >@[2,54]BASTART.CMD 12:46:19 *** GENCheckpoint space allocation failure

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2017-05-07 22:21, Ray Jewhurst wrote: Sorry to be a pest but now I am getting an error. I got the same one using a pre-built system I found on Bitsavers. Heh... Maybe not surprising... run bad BAD>db0: BAD -- DB0: Unrecoverable error -65. .err -65 000277 (-65): %I/O-F-IE.OFL, device i

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Alan Frisbie
On 05/07/2017 01:21 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote: RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6 BL87 128.KW System:"Baseline" >RED DU:=SY: >RED DU:=LB: >RED DU:=SP: >MOU DU0:"RSX11MPBL87" >@[2,54]BASTART.CMD 12:46:19 *** GENCheckpoint space allocation failure 12:46:19 *** GENCheckpoint space allo

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Ray Jewhurst
Sorry to be a pest but now I am getting an error. I got the same one using a pre-built system I found on Bitsavers. >run bad > BAD>db0: BAD -- DB0: Unrecoverable error -65. BAD>du0: > > BAD -- DU0: Total bad blocks= 0. BAD>^Z >run bru > BRU>/rew ms0: du0: BRU - Starting Tape 1 on MS0: BRU - E

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
All things said, though, just feel free to ask whenever there is anything. Johnny On 2017-05-07 21:39, Johnny Billquist wrote: Hi. On 2017-05-07 21:30, Ray Jewhurst wrote: Thank you very much. For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or any other OS for that matter) conversion ch

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
Hi. On 2017-05-07 21:30, Ray Jewhurst wrote: Thank you very much. For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or any other OS for that matter) conversion chart for the various devices? It would be quite handy. I'm not aware of any. This have always been a bit of a problem in general, as the

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Ray Jewhurst
Thank you very much. For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or any other OS for that matter) conversion chart for the various devices? It would be quite handy. Thanks again, Ray On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2017-05-07 21:05, Ray Jewhurst wrote: > >> Hello

Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2017-05-07 21:05, Ray Jewhurst wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+ (actually first of any RSX-11!) and I am follow the instructions at http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen and I am having problems right out of the gate. When I try to copy th

[Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

2017-05-07 Thread Ray Jewhurst
Hello everyone, I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+ (actually first of any RSX-11!) and I am follow the instructions at http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen and I am having problems right out of the gate. When I try to copy the baseline system this is what I get: RSX-