From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: [pups] Making a TK50 2.11BSD boot tape for an 11/73
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:06:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030116110643.B28361@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301160744570.11570-100000@gladen>; from luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu on Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:53:02AM -0800
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:53:02AM -0800, Andru Luvisi wrote:
> maketape will pad each of "mtboot", "mtboot", and "boot" out to an even
> length of 512 bytes. The "cat | dd" method will not pad the first two
> out.
>
Ahhh--of course. One would have to do a series of "dd"s in order to
get the padding happening.
> I discovered this while trying to create a bootable tape image for simh.
> I needed to emulate the maketape behavior for it to work.
>
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.
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David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans at bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-16 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-15 20:48 David Evans
2003-01-15 21:50 ` Jochen Kunz
2003-01-16 14:40 ` David Evans
2003-01-16 15:53 ` Andru Luvisi
2003-01-16 16:06 ` David Evans [this message]
2003-01-16 17:28 ` Johnny Billquist
2003-01-16 17:33 ` David Evans
2003-01-16 18:01 ` Andru Luvisi
2003-01-16 17:55 ` David Evans
2003-01-16 17:42 ` Andru Luvisi
2003-01-16 17:40 ` Johnny Billquist
2003-01-16 17:45 ` David Evans
2003-01-16 17:34 ` Andru Luvisi
2003-01-16 17:30 ` David Evans
2003-01-16 17:39 ` Jochen Kunz
2003-01-16 18:24 ` emanuel stiebler
2003-01-16 18:59 ` David Evans
2003-01-16 19:45 ` emanuel stiebler
2003-01-16 17:53 Norman Wilson
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