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From: jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de (Jochen Kunz)
Subject: [pups] Making a TK50 2.11BSD boot tape for an 11/73
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:39:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030116183913.Y57315@MissSophie.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030116110643.B28361@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca>; from dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca on Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 17:06:43 CET

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On 2003.01.16 17:06 David Evans wrote:

>   Ahhh--of course.  One would have to do a series of "dd"s in order to
> get the padding happening.
That is only half the thing. It is also important to use the proper tape
block size. maketape uses some ioctls to set this, dd don't know about
this. 

> 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.
A common solution. 

> Might be easier than endless futzing with the TK50.
Whimp. ;-) 
-- 



tschüß,
         Jochen

Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-16 17:39 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
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 [this message]
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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