16 Jan
2003
16 Jan
'03
6:40 p.m.
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Andru Luvisi wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I misread David's post the first time. I thought he was thinking of doing
an installation on simh (using a bootable tape image) and then dd'ing the
disk image onto a SCSI disk to boot the real PDP-11 from. Is there any
reason this wouldn't work?
Ah. Maybe I misunderstood things. Copying a bootable disk image should
work just fine. I thought he wanted the tape image moved over.
Johnny
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Evans wrote:
[snip]
That's not a bad idea. Perhaps I should just make a minimal
bootable image using simh or such, dd it to a SCSI disk, and then
attach that to my 11/73. Might be easier than endless futzing with the
TK50.
Don't. The moment you copy a tape file to disk, you will loose meta
information unless you use a program specifically designed to preserve
that information.