13 Aug
2011
13 Aug
'11
7:24 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 07:53:44PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
When I boot V7 in SIMH (pdp11), I get a root shell and
a root filesystem,
but... I see that /usr/bin is on root's default PATH, but I have no
/usr/bin directory. Is there some way I could get a /usr/bin with
additional executables, to get the full flavor of V7?
It's not unusual to have no /usr/bin at first,
see "Setting Up Unix" in the 7th ed man, vol2b:
"The system as distributed has all of the binaries in /bin. Most of
them should be moved to /usr/bin, leaving only the ones required for
system maintenance (such as icheck, dcheck, cc, ed, restor, etc.)
and the most heavily used in /bin. This will speed things up a bit
if you have only one disk, and also free up space on the root file
system for temporary files."