From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:06:43 -0500 Subject: [pups] Making a TK50 2.11BSD boot tape for an 11/73 In-Reply-To: ; from luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu on Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:53:02AM -0800 References: <20030116094037.B28194@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: <20030116110643.B28361@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca> 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. -- 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 Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual