From: bpechter@monmouth.com (Bill Pechter)
Subject: [pups] Re: PUPS digest, Vol 1 #148 - 1 msg
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:01:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E71FCC5.8010705@monmouth.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303140207.h2E275n38901@minnie.tuhs.org>
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> 1. Installing Venix or 2.9bsdpro on a DEC PRO350 (Franco Tassone)
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>Message: 1
>From: "Franco Tassone" <franco.tassone at inwind.it>
>To: <pups at minnie.tuhs.org>
>Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:30:08 +0100
>Subject: [pups] Installing Venix or 2.9bsdpro on a DEC PRO350
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>Hi all,
>
>after having downloaded both distributions from a PUPS mirror, I was trying
>to install Venix or 2.9bsd modified for the PRO350.
>I've created for both distributions the installations floppy using a mvaxII
>with an rx50 floppy. The mvaxII actually runs netbsd, so I did a dd
>if=floppy.img of=/dev/rx0a for all the floppy images of the distributions,
>but when I go and try to boot the bot floppies of venix (and 2.9bsd too) on
>the PRO350, they fail to boot. The drive seems to try a little then the
>machine hangs, no messages on the console, except a nice capital DIGITAL, no
>messages on the serial terminale connected to the printer port with the
>maintenance cable.
>With venix floppy instead, after failing to boot, after a litle P/OS starts
>from hd.
>What am I missing, what did I wrong ?
>Any hint will be greatly appreciated.
>P.S. I definitively want to install an ancient unix on my dec pro350...,
>help me !
>...
>Franco Tassone
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>
I think those may be teledisk images so DD probably wouldn't work.
You need an IBM PC with 80 track drives, IIRC to recreate the images...
It's been a long time since I looked at those images.
Bill
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2003-03-14 16:01 ` Bill Pechter [this message]
2003-03-14 18:00 ` Subject: [pups] Installing Venix or 2.9bsdpro on a DEC PRO350 Gregg C Levine
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