From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: simh@groups.io, The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] SVR2 on a PDP-11
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:16:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBdmF3B3-s3+z=hEEGvCA8_Ok4Z3VORYq=1Gmt5EUZhVGw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hello all,
I have a distribution of SVR2 on the PDP-11 that I have managed to get
booting into the initial root dump, but it is not clear to me how to
proceed from there to format a /usr filesystem and setup for multi-user.
The root dump boots on a simulated 11/70 with an RP06:
--
sim> boot rp
#0=unixgdtm
UNIX/sysV: unixgdtm
real mem = 3145728 bytes
avail mem = 3068864 bytes
INIT: SINGLE USER MODE
--
I'm mostly a BSD person but I'm familiar enough with some later SysV
systems. That being said, the initialization procedure here is completely
foreign to me. I have cpio files for the entire system and I know in
theory how to extract them, but I'm stuck at the basics of creating /usr,
setting up /etc and the like. I have a fully extracted filesystem from the
cpio files that I can browse but I can't find enough information in the
manpages. I haven't managed to find any installation manuals or the like
on Bitsavers, and I can't even manage to find a listing in the source of
the expected disk partitions/sizes. I feel very much like I am stumbling
in the dark here and would appreciate any pointers to how to proceed.
Thanks!
-Henry
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