From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:40:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [pups] Making a TK50 2.11BSD boot tape for an 11/73 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Andru Luvisi wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Evans wrote: > [snip] > > > 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. Might be easier than endless futzing with the > > > TK50. > > > > Don't. The moment you copy a tape file to disk, you will loose meta > > information unless you use a program specifically designed to preserve > > that information. > > I misread David's post the first time. I thought he was thinking of doing > an installation on simh (using a bootable tape image) and then dd'ing the > disk image onto a SCSI disk to boot the real PDP-11 from. Is there any > reason this wouldn't work? Ah. Maybe I misunderstood things. Copying a bootable disk image should work just fine. I thought he wanted the tape image moved over. Johnny Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at update.uu.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol