Re: [pups] 2.11BSD networking on simulator - TUHS

1 Feb 2001

I have the begemot simulator running very effectively on Linux, although I have
not used the emulated ethernet connection.  If anyone knows how to set this up
on linux then I would welcome some help.

I must say that although p11 takes quite a bit of setting up it is well worth
the trouble.

Regards

Robin

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 Subject: RE: [pups] A bootable disk image for a PDP-11/34?
 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:38:15 -0800

 Ken, I tried using that image and gunzip told me there was a crc error; it
 wouldn't unzip it.  (I downloaded it three times, just in case there was a
 transmission error -- twice by ftp, once by http.)  I've also tried the
 "Dennis" images, which are supposedly straight RK05 images; E11 won't
boot
 'em.  One issue on which I'm not clear: where is the boot address?  Stuff at
 loc 0 doesn't look like boot instructions.  

 If I could get an image to run in an emulator (as I mentioned, I'm running
 E11 from DBit), I'd write some cheesy little loader to bring it down the
 serial line (I already have it sketched out); but until I can at least get
 one to boot in the emulator, I'm reluctant to spend the hours (at 9600 baud)
 to spray it onto a disk.  <sigh>   
Well, as some response to this challenge "get an image to run in an emulator",
I visited Bob Supnik's Computer History Simulation Project web page

	<www.tiac.net/users/mps/retro/>

and followed the links to the sources for SIMH v2.5a and to the Unix V6
disk images.

I read the documentation file "simh_doc.txt", and compiled the
simulator.  Then I read "simh_swre.txt", unpacked the V6 images, ran
the simulator and attached the three RK05 images to it, and booted
RK0.  All according to the instructions.

I got the bootstrap prompt "@" to which I typed "unix" and it came up
with a "login:" prompt, to which I could log in as root, and do things.

It's not quite the same V6 image that I remember from the olden days of
loading onto an 11/40 from magtape.  The login prompt seems not to be
";login:" as we still see on the Usenix magazine.  dmr's account seems
to have vanished but ken's is still there.  And that's how I spent a
few hours last night.

In case it matters, the underlying hardware/software platform is an AMD
K6-3 running Mandrake 7.1 Linux.

    carl

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