From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:30:51 -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 09:34:16AM -0800 References: <20030116110643.B28361@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: <20030116123051.D28733@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:34:16AM -0800, Andru Luvisi wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Evans wrote: > > 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. > > But then they would end up in separate tape files. :-( > Ahh--I was asleep at the wheel and forgot that there's no convenient way to concatenate the files using dd. Duh. > I already made one. It's part of > http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Boot_Images/2.11_on_Simh/211bsd.tar.gz > along with the Perl script I wrote to make it. > Oh yeah--I saw that but forgot about it. Just not my day. :P -- 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