From: robinb@ruffnready.co.uk (robinb@ruffnready.co.uk)
Subject: [pups] "/unix is not the running version." ??
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:09:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <S616746AbVKCPJq/20051103151003Z+1001445@anchor-fallback-96.mail.demon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c5e030$b68f64f0$0401010a@jfcl.com>
Right idea, wrong way round :-)
Copy your /unix to something like /unix.save and then call your new image /unix.
Unfortunately the autoconfig stuff has /unix hard coded into it and will only look for this file.
Cheers
Robin
bob at jfcl.com wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Thanks for the help with my dzq11 problem - I'm glad to see that there are
> still people around running PDP-11 Unix. Now that I've actually started
> using my 11/73, I've run into several things that I just don't know how to
> fix.
>
> Like this one - I built a non-networking kernel (my normal /unix kernel
> has DEQNA and TCP/IP support) using the NONET example that comes with
> 2.11BSD. No particular problems there.
>
> Since I don't actually want to overwrite my /unix file, I can't use "make
> install" to install the nonet kernel, and so I just say "cp unix /nonet" and
> then chmod /nonet to set the protections. This might have been my mistake,
> but I don't know any other way to do it without trashing my real /unix
> kernel.
>
> To boot the nonet kernel, at the ":" boot prompt I type "nonet". All is
> well until we get up to init, and then it says
>
> autoconfig: /unix is not the running version
> init: configuration setup error
>
> And then I'm stuck in single user mode with no devices configured. Not
> especially useful.
>
> Is my mistake in just "cp"ing the nonet kernel, or is there some
> limitation on booting files other than /unix?
>
> Thanks again,
> Bob Armstrong
>
>
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2005-11-03 4:40 Robert Armstrong
2005-11-03 15:09 ` robinb [this message]
2005-11-03 15:58 Robert Armstrong
2005-11-03 16:10 ` David Evans
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