OK, I think I'm figuring out how to install Unix System III on a 11/45. In particular, I mount the first tape on a MT tape drive, get a RP04 up and spinning, and boot from tape: UNIX tape boot loader UNIX -- Initial Load: Tape-to-Disk The type of disk drive on which the Root file system will reside, as well as the type of tape drive that will be used for Tape 1 must be specified below. Answer the questions with a 'y' or 'n' followed by a carriage return or line feed. There is no type-ahead -- wait for the question to complete. The character '@' will kill the entire line, while the character '#' will erase the last character typed. RP03 at address 176710?: n RP04/5/6 at address 176700?: y Drive number (0-7)?: 0 Disk drive 0 selected. Mount a formatted pack on drive 0. Ready?: y TU10/TM11 at address 172520?: y Drive number (0-7)?: 0 Tape drive 0 selected. The tape on drive 0 will be read from the current position at 800bpi, 5120 characters (10 blocks) per record, and written onto the pack on drive 0 starting at block 0. Ready?: y Size of filesystem to be copied is 6000 blocks. What is the pack volume label? (e.g. p0001): p0001 The pack will be labelled p0001. The boot block for your type of disk drive will now be installed. The file system copy is now complete. To boot the basic unix for your disk and tape drives as indicated above, mount this pack on drive 0 and read in the boot block (block 0) using whatever means you have available; see romboot(8), 70boot(8). Then boot the program unixhptm using diskboot(8). Normally: #0=unixhptm The system will initially come up single-user; see init(8). If you have an upper case only console terminal, you must execute: stty lcase; see stty(1). After UNIX is up, link the file unixhptm to unix using ln(1). # ln /unixhptm /unix Set the date(1). Good Luck! The tape will now be rewound. [Now I boot from the RP04]: #0=unixhptm UNIX/3.0.1: unixhptm real mem = 253952 bytes avail mem = 187584 bytes unix single-user # ls -l total 805 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 32 Feb 15 1979 bck drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin 1312 Dec 15 1981 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 528 Dec 15 1981 dev drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 1056 Oct 26 14:57 etc drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin 272 Dec 15 1981 lib drwxrwxrwx 2 bin bin 32 May 31 1980 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 32 Feb 15 1979 mnt drwxrwxr-x 3 bin bin 368 Dec 15 1981 stand -rwxrwxr-x 1 sys sys 51382 Nov 9 1982 unixhpht -rwxrwxr-x 1 sys sys 50778 Sep 3 1980 unixhptm -rwxrwxr-x 1 sys sys 49380 Sep 3 1980 unixrkht -rwxrwxr-x 1 sys sys 48782 Sep 3 1980 unixrktm -rwxrwxr-x 1 sys sys 50172 Sep 3 1980 unixrlht -rwxrwxr-x 1 sys sys 49574 Sep 3 1980 unixrltm -rwxrwxr-x 1 sys sys 49704 Sep 3 1980 unixrpht -rwxrwxr-x 1 sys sys 49106 Sep 3 1980 unixrptm drwxr-xr-x 2 sys sys 32 Aug 19 08:46 usr But what do I do next? There's a bunch of 5120-byte-record files still on the tape, and the "/bin" on the root filesystem doesn't have "tar" or "restor". It *does* have cpio, and I think that's what I want to use. So what's the next step? -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927 Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA52023 for pups-liszt; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:53:46 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA52019 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:53:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.3) id SAA20860 for pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:53:22 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (henry.cs.adfa.edu.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA52010 for <pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au>; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:53:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.3) id SAA20841; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:52:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from wkt) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au> Message-Id: <200006250852.SAA20841(a)henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> Subject: Re: Installing SYSTEM III; stuck! In-Reply-To: <000624211802.2620014a(a)trailing-edge.com> from Tim Shoppa at "Jun 24, 2000 9:18: 2 pm" To: SHOPPA(a)trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:52:47 +1000 (EST) Cc: pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (PDP-11 Unix Preservation Society) Reply-To: wkt(a)cs.adfa.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Tim Shoppa: /usr/src/man/docs/setup file explains what to do next. It's in nroff format, but I don't know what macro switch to use to print it out correctly. I'll send it in a separate e-mail to avoid clogging up the list. Warren