Any DEC RSTS folks out there, need help

[Brad Parker]

someone, who knows who, wrote:
>> 
>> > For my 11/23+ I did my RSTS installs on a simulator then used unix 
>> > 'dd' to copy the files over to the 10gb scsi disk I use.
>> 
>> Cool!  I've been saying this should work, but this is the 
>> first I've heard of anyone actually doing it.  How did you 
>> create the disk image you installed RSTS onto?

You know, I did this recently. I started with the V9.2 tapes and
made an image with simh and then dd'd it to a zip drive (thanks eric,
good idea!) and then tried to boot it on my 11/44.

I think, however, that the simh session thought I was running on an
11/73 and when I went to run in on an 11/44, something went wrong.  I
got a lot of messages complaining about the cluster size being wrong.
It didn't run rsts.

I plan to try again, telling simh i'm on a unibus machine, but I was
curious if anyone one else had see this. I told it I was using an rd31.
tiny, but big enough.

I've had good luck doing this (i.e. making an image with simh and dd-ing
it to a scsi disk) with rt11 and 211bsd.  It's a quick way to bootstrap
when you have unibus hardware you (ahem) might have forgotten to remove
the battery backup jumpers from (dd11-dk) or NPR jumpers, or what other
whatnot.  But it does require a unibus (or qbus) scsi card.

>I could also just have a partition on the /23+ (which also has an RLV12 in
>it) with Ultrix-11 or BSD, transfer the disk images to the SCSI drive over
>TCP/IP, and use 'dd' on there to copy the images over to the cartridges.

I've done that too.  rcp is my friend.  I did it running 2.11bsd,
however, using and 11/53 cpu in a qbus chassis.  I used a kda-50 to
write an SDI disk and then moved the SDI disk to a uda-50 unibus
machine.

-brad