Loading an OS onto a real PDP-11 - not an emulator

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: Loading an OS onto a real PDP-11 - not an emulator
>   From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>
>   Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:59:15 -0500
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On Mar 23, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Allison wrote:
>>>>   Using vtserver is a good option here.  Though I'm currently having
>>>> trouble with it with an 11/23 I'm trying to load with RSTS/E, I've had
>>>> good luck with it in the past with RSTS/E and 2.11BSD on an 11/83.  I
>>>> think my 11/23's console SLU is somehow flakey and screwing with data
>>>> transfer.

I didn't write ^^^^.

I wrote vvvv.

>>> Slow the data rate.  Stay under 4800 as you may be getting buffer 
>>> overflows.

Someone else wrote vvvv.

>>   I'll see about trying that tomorrow.  I don't really mind if it takes 
>> days to copy (I'm moving a 300+MB image) as long as it's error-free.
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>   That won't fly.  VTserver v2.x has a 32MB file-size limit.  :(

Use Vtserver to install an OS and use that to do the heavy lifting...

HOWEVER: RT11 has a 32mb limit (per file device) as well so use an 
OS that can handle that size files.  Maybe UnixV6 is a possible choice.


Allison

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