Re: [Simh] Idea for a Simh guide

2017-05-09 Thread Paul Koning
Ray, Great idea! I'll offer help on the subject of RSTS-11 and RSTS/E. Come to think of it, I need to gather up some notes about some work I've done on old versions: (1) building RSTS-11 V4A from a kit (tricky, because it really wants to be done with DOS 4 and not later versions, and DOS 4

Re: [Simh] vax750 and simulated hard-wired serial connections and Raspbian

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Alan Perry wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Alan > Perry > Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 11:16 AM > To: Mark Pizzolato ; simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject: Re: [Simh] vax750 and

Re: [Simh] vax750 and simulated hard-wired serial connections and Raspbian

2017-05-09 Thread Alan Perry
On 5/9/17 10:42 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Alan Perry wrote: I am participating in the UUCP project and have set up a SIMH vax750 on a Raspberry Pi. I am using the 4.3BSD bits that the UUCP project lead (Warren) provides to install the system and followed his

Re: [Simh] vax750 and simulated hard-wired serial connections and Raspbian

2017-05-09 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Alan Perry wrote: > I am participating in the UUCP project and have set up a SIMH vax750 on a > Raspberry Pi. I am using the 4.3BSD bits that the UUCP project lead > (Warren) provides to install the system and followed his instructions for > configuring it. >

Re: [Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

2017-05-09 Thread Anders Magnusson
4.3BSD has its partition tables compiled into the driver. You can generate the C code for the disk drivers using diskpart based on disktab. Note that you must use the same entry in the device driver that you later use for newfs (which reads the disk partition stuff from disktab). -- R Den

Re: [Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

2017-05-09 Thread Alan Perry
I added the partition info for ra82 to /etc/disktab and indicate ra82 when I run newfs, but newfs reports "Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82". On 5/9/17 10:03 AM, Rhialto wrote: I'm not sure if 4.3 already has disklabels. In any case, before disklabels, partitions were compiled into

[Simh] vax750 and simulated hard-wired serial connections and Raspbian

2017-05-09 Thread Alan Perry
I am participating in the UUCP project and have set up a SIMH vax750 on a Raspberry Pi. I am using the 4.3BSD bits that the UUCP project lead (Warren) provides to install the system and followed his instructions for configuring it. It uses a simulated hard-wired serial connection to

[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

2017-05-09 Thread Alan Perry
What are the steps for adding storage to a SIMH vax (vax750, to be specific) running 4.3BSD? I created disk image files on the host OS of the proper size (for RA82s) and attached them through the .ini file. However, they don't have partition tables and this version of BSD doesn't seem to have