From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu (Andru Luvisi) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:34:16 -0800 (PST) Subject: [pups] Making a TK50 2.11BSD boot tape for an 11/73 In-Reply-To: <20030116110643.B28361@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David Evans wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:53:02AM -0800, Andru Luvisi wrote: > > maketape will pad each of "mtboot", "mtboot", and "boot" out to an even > > length of 512 bytes. The "cat | dd" method will not pad the first two > > out. > > > > Ahhh--of course. One would have to do a series of "dd"s in order to > get the padding happening. But then they would end up in separate tape files. :-( > > I discovered this while trying to create a bootable tape image for simh. > > I needed to emulate the maketape behavior for it to work. > > > > 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. I already made one. It's part of http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Boot_Images/2.11_on_Simh/211bsd.tar.gz along with the Perl script I wrote to make it. Andru -- Andru Luvisi, Programmer/Analyst Quote Of The Moment: I'm not normal. I know it. I don't care! - Ace Of Base