Installing UNIX on an 11/94

OK.. Biggie here is that this machine doesn't have a tape drive, just 2 RA92 drives. It used to have a TU81, but it seems to have been junked along the way. No ethernet card either.. (anybody know where to get a DEUNA cheap??) What are my options to get 2.11BSD running on this beast? I have a uVAX 3600 running NetBSD, so I could possibly dump a raw filesystem image onto one of the RA92's and perhaps boot the 11/94 off of it. Is this feasible? I haven't looked into it yet.. I was thinking of using one of those TU58 emulators on the PC, but I didn't find any mention of booting an 11/94 of these tape drives or installing UNIX from it.. I don't have any other UNIBUS cards, so I can't plug my TK70 into the 11/94.. Any thoughts on the subject are welcome.. Bye, Arno. -- PSINetworks Europe Fax: +31-23-5699841 | One disk to rule them all, Siriusdreef 34 Tel: +31-23-5699840 | One disk to bind them, 2132WT Hoofddorp+--------------------------------+ One disk to hold the files The Netherlands | * Musical Interlude * | And in the darkness grind 'em ----------------+--------------------------------+------------------------------ We say Retribution, We say Vengeance is bliss, We say Revolution, With a Cast-Iron fist! (Megadeth, 'The Disintegrators') -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA46129 for pups-liszt; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:36:50 +1100 (EST) Received: from moe.2bsd.com (0(a)MOE.2BSD.COM [206.139.202.200]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA46125 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:36:40 +1100 (EST) Received: (from sms@localhost) by moe.2bsd.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id LAA18041 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:35:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:35:35 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven M. Schultz" <sms(a)moe.2bsd.com> Message-Id: <199912131935.LAA18041(a)moe.2bsd.com> To: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Subject: Re: Installing UNIX on an 11/94 Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Hi - Congratulations on getting a /94 with RA92 drives! Condolences on the tape drive being junked. In the US there are many places which sell used DEC equipment but I do not know of any in the Netherlands. If at all possible get a DELUA insetad - less power hungry and fewer bugs. Yes, it should be possible. You will need to run one of the emulators (either Bob Supnik's or Willi Begemot's "P11"). The tricky part will be in the geometry/size of the disk image. The emulators do not know about MSCP drives so you will have to go thru the bootstrap process using an SMD ('xp' driver) drive and pretend you have a RP06 or 7. Then at the last minute install the MSCP bootblock. DD that image to an RA92 and hoo that up to the /94. The problem you will most likely encounter is that the size will not be exactly right for the last partition. Experimenting with the standalone 'disklabel' program and adjusting the sizes/geometry may be needed. If the size is changed then 'fsck -s' to force a rebuild of the freelist will be needed. Experimentation - I think it'd take a few tries to get it right ;) No support for the TU58 in the kernel or boot program. At 256kb it's barely large enough to hold the standalone programs much less a dump of the root filesystem or anything like that. Steven Schultz sms(a)moe.2bsd.com