Making an RT-11 boot disk

[Adrian Graham]

On 10/4/07 14:28, "David Betz" <dbetz at xlisper.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to use simh to create an RT-11 bootable RX50 disk and am
> following some instructions posted by Megan Gentry a while ago. I've
> created the disk image but am having trouble making it bootable. The
> copy/boot command claims it can't find the RT-11 image but it is
> clearly on the floppy (du0). Any idea what's going wrong?
> 
> .dir du0:
> 10-Apr-99
> RT11XM.SYS   106P 20-Dec-85      DU    .SYS     8P 20-Dec-85
> TT    .SYS     2P 20-Dec-85      PIP   .SAV    30P 20-Dec-85
> DUP   .SAV    47P 20-Dec-85      DIR   .SAV    19P 20-Dec-85
> RESORC.SAV    25P 20-Dec-85      EDIT  .SAV    19P 20-Dec-85
> MACRO .SAV    61P 20-Dec-85      CREF  .SAV     6P 20-Dec-85
> LINK  .SAV    49P 20-Dec-85      LIBR  .SAV    24P 20-Dec-85
> FILEX .SAV    22P 20-Dec-85      HELP  .SAV   132P 20-Dec-85
> BATCH .SAV    26P 20-Dec-85      FORMAT.SAV    24P 20-Dec-85
> SETUP .SAV    41P 20-Dec-85      SPEED .SAV     4P 20-Dec-85
> DATIME.SAV     4P 20-Dec-85      LET   .SAV     5P 20-Dec-85
> SPLIT .SAV     3P 20-Dec-85      CONFIG.SAV     7P 20-Dec-85
> SWAP  .SYS    27P 20-Dec-85
> 23 Files, 691 Blocks
> 95 Free blocks
> 
> .copy/boot du0:rt11xm.sys du0:
> ?DUP-F-File not found DU0:RT11XM.SYS

Been a looooong time since I did any RT11, but doesn't the P after the
blocksize mean the file's protected? Isn't there an UNPROT command?

/rusty brain 

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