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* [TUHS] having issues with simh and setting up dci for unixV7
@ 2021-10-20 22:50 joseph turco
  2021-10-20 23:14 ` Will Senn
  2021-10-21  1:58 ` Clem Cole
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: joseph turco @ 2021-10-20 22:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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hello all,

i am a new unix user, so please excuse my ignorance.

I am trying to setup using unixV7 with simh pdp11 emulator. The guide i am
following is by Will Senn (in PDF form). I have been able to successfully
get the machine to boot with unix, and login as root. what i am having
problems with, is trying to get telnet access via dci to work. when i
follow the guide and do the following:

# cd /usr/sys/conf
# rm l.o c.o
# cp hptmconf myconfnf
# echo 4dc >> myconf
# mkconf < myconf
# make
as - -o l.o l.s
cc -c c.c
ld -o unix -X -i l.o mch.o c.o ../sys/LIB1 ../dev/LIB2
# sum unix
10314
 106
# ls -l unix
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root
 54122 Dec 31 19:09 unix
etc...

when i issue the mkconf < myconf command, i get a bunch of text printed
out, but with a 'root device not found'. the sum unix value is different,
as well as the size of the ls -l unix file size.. now when i try booting it
with the newly created mboot.ini file (as per the guide), i go to start up
the system with 'hp(0,0)munix' and it starts but hangs with the text 'fault
devtab'

what am I doing wrong?

regards,

Joseph Turco

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* Re: [TUHS] having issues with simh and setting up dci for unixV7
  2021-10-20 22:50 [TUHS] having issues with simh and setting up dci for unixV7 joseph turco
@ 2021-10-20 23:14 ` Will Senn
  2021-10-20 23:37   ` Larry McVoy
  2021-10-21  1:58 ` Clem Cole
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Will Senn @ 2021-10-20 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

Hi Joseph,

# cp hptmconf myconfnf
# echo 4dc >> myconf

looks like a typo. If you actually typed this, all that would be in 
myconf would be 4dc. You need the contents of hptmconf plus 4dc. 
Otherwise you'd be missing some important devices.

Will

On 10/20/21 5:50 PM, joseph turco wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i am a new unix user, so please excuse my ignorance.
>
> I am trying to setup using unixV7 with simh pdp11 emulator. The guide 
> i am following is by Will Senn (in PDF form). I have been able to 
> successfully get the machine to boot with unix, and login as root. 
> what i am having problems with, is trying to get telnet access via dci 
> to work. when i follow the guide and do the following:
>
> # cd /usr/sys/conf
> # rm l.o c.o
> # cp hptmconf myconfnf
> # echo 4dc >> myconf
> # mkconf < myconf
> # make
> as - -o l.o l.s
> cc -c c.c
> ld -o unix -X -i l.o mch.o c.o ../sys/LIB1 ../dev/LIB2
> # sum unix
> 10314
>  106
> # ls -l unix
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root
>  54122 Dec 31 19:09 unix
> etc...
>
> when i issue the mkconf < myconf command, i get a bunch of text 
> printed out, but with a 'root device not found'. the sum unix value is 
> different, as well as the size of the ls -l unix file size.. now when 
> i try booting it with the newly created mboot.ini file (as per the 
> guide), i go to start up the system with 'hp(0,0)munix' and it starts 
> but hangs with the text 'fault devtab'
>
> what am I doing wrong?
>
> regards,
>
> Joseph Turco


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* Re: [TUHS] having issues with simh and setting up dci for unixV7
  2021-10-20 23:14 ` Will Senn
@ 2021-10-20 23:37   ` Larry McVoy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Larry McVoy @ 2021-10-20 23:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Will Senn; +Cc: tuhs

# cp hptmconf myconf
# echo 4dc >> myconf

is my guess.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 06:14:46PM -0500, Will Senn wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
> 
> # cp hptmconf myconfnf
> # echo 4dc >> myconf
> 
> looks like a typo. If you actually typed this, all that would be in myconf
> would be 4dc. You need the contents of hptmconf plus 4dc. Otherwise you'd be
> missing some important devices.
> 
> Will
> 
> On 10/20/21 5:50 PM, joseph turco wrote:
> >hello all,
> >
> >i am a new unix user, so please excuse my ignorance.
> >
> >I am trying to setup using unixV7 with simh pdp11 emulator. The guide i am
> >following is by Will Senn (in PDF form). I have been able to successfully
> >get the machine to boot with unix, and login as root. what i am having
> >problems with, is trying to get telnet access via dci to work. when i
> >follow the guide and do the following:
> >
> ># cd /usr/sys/conf
> ># rm l.o c.o
> ># cp hptmconf myconfnf
> ># echo 4dc >> myconf
> ># mkconf < myconf
> ># make
> >as - -o l.o l.s
> >cc -c c.c
> >ld -o unix -X -i l.o mch.o c.o ../sys/LIB1 ../dev/LIB2
> ># sum unix
> >10314
> >??106
> ># ls -l unix
> >-rwxrwxr-x 1 root
> >??54122 Dec 31 19:09 unix
> >etc...
> >
> >when i issue the mkconf < myconf command, i get a bunch of text printed
> >out, but with a 'root device not found'. the sum unix value is different,
> >as well as the size of the ls -l unix file size.. now when i try booting
> >it with the newly created mboot.ini file (as per the guide), i go to start
> >up the system with 'hp(0,0)munix' and it starts but hangs with the text
> >'fault devtab'
> >
> >what am I doing wrong?
> >
> >regards,
> >
> >Joseph Turco

-- 
---
Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 

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* Re: [TUHS] having issues with simh and setting up dci for unixV7
  2021-10-20 22:50 [TUHS] having issues with simh and setting up dci for unixV7 joseph turco
  2021-10-20 23:14 ` Will Senn
@ 2021-10-21  1:58 ` Clem Cole
  2021-10-22 13:42   ` joseph turco
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Clem Cole @ 2021-10-21  1:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: joseph turco; +Cc: TUHS main list

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FWI:  You'll probably have better luck with the KL/DL interface.   And it's
already in the system, since the console is on the first one.
# cp hptmconf myconfnf
# echo 3kl >> myconf

If you are really adventurous with simh, then configure the DH11 and it's
associated DM11 interface, which from a performance standpoint work a lot
better and have all the RS-232 signals supported [which is something one of
the PiDP folks was recently trying to get going].
# echo 2dh >> myconf
# echo dhdm >> myconf

ᐧ

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 6:51 PM joseph turco <italian.pepe.32@gmail.com>
wrote:

> hello all,
>
> i am a new unix user, so please excuse my ignorance.
>
> I am trying to setup using unixV7 with simh pdp11 emulator. The guide i am
> following is by Will Senn (in PDF form). I have been able to successfully
> get the machine to boot with unix, and login as root. what i am having
> problems with, is trying to get telnet access via dci to work. when i
> follow the guide and do the following:
>
> # cd /usr/sys/conf
> # rm l.o c.o
> # cp hptmconf myconfnf
> # echo 4dc >> myconf
> # mkconf < myconf
> # make
> as - -o l.o l.s
> cc -c c.c
> ld -o unix -X -i l.o mch.o c.o ../sys/LIB1 ../dev/LIB2
> # sum unix
> 10314
>  106
> # ls -l unix
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root
>  54122 Dec 31 19:09 unix
> etc...
>
> when i issue the mkconf < myconf command, i get a bunch of text printed
> out, but with a 'root device not found'. the sum unix value is different,
> as well as the size of the ls -l unix file size.. now when i try booting it
> with the newly created mboot.ini file (as per the guide), i go to start up
> the system with 'hp(0,0)munix' and it starts but hangs with the text 'fault
> devtab'
>
> what am I doing wrong?
>
> regards,
>
> Joseph Turco
>

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* Re: [TUHS] having issues with simh and setting up dci for unixV7
  2021-10-21  1:58 ` Clem Cole
@ 2021-10-22 13:42   ` joseph turco
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: joseph turco @ 2021-10-22 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Clem Cole; +Cc: TUHS main list

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I got it working now ignoring the typo. Many thanks for the help! Now I
have a Unix timesharing "pdp-11" box.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:58 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

> FWI:  You'll probably have better luck with the KL/DL interface.   And
> it's already in the system, since the console is on the first one.
> # cp hptmconf myconfnf
> # echo 3kl >> myconf
>
> If you are really adventurous with simh, then configure the DH11 and it's
> associated DM11 interface, which from a performance standpoint work a lot
> better and have all the RS-232 signals supported [which is something one of
> the PiDP folks was recently trying to get going].
> # echo 2dh >> myconf
> # echo dhdm >> myconf
>
> ᐧ
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 6:51 PM joseph turco <italian.pepe.32@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> hello all,
>>
>> i am a new unix user, so please excuse my ignorance.
>>
>> I am trying to setup using unixV7 with simh pdp11 emulator. The guide i
>> am following is by Will Senn (in PDF form). I have been able to
>> successfully get the machine to boot with unix, and login as root. what i
>> am having problems with, is trying to get telnet access via dci to work.
>> when i follow the guide and do the following:
>>
>> # cd /usr/sys/conf
>> # rm l.o c.o
>> # cp hptmconf myconfnf
>> # echo 4dc >> myconf
>> # mkconf < myconf
>> # make
>> as - -o l.o l.s
>> cc -c c.c
>> ld -o unix -X -i l.o mch.o c.o ../sys/LIB1 ../dev/LIB2
>> # sum unix
>> 10314
>>  106
>> # ls -l unix
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root
>>  54122 Dec 31 19:09 unix
>> etc...
>>
>> when i issue the mkconf < myconf command, i get a bunch of text printed
>> out, but with a 'root device not found'. the sum unix value is different,
>> as well as the size of the ls -l unix file size.. now when i try booting it
>> with the newly created mboot.ini file (as per the guide), i go to start up
>> the system with 'hp(0,0)munix' and it starts but hangs with the text 'fault
>> devtab'
>>
>> what am I doing wrong?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Joseph Turco
>>
>

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