From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu (Andru Luvisi) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:42:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: [pups] Making a TK50 2.11BSD boot tape for an 11/73 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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? Andru -- Andru Luvisi, Programmer/Analyst Quote Of The Moment: If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain