From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: robinb@ruffnready.co.uk (robinb@ruffnready.co.uk) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:09:31 +0000 Subject: [pups] "/unix is not the running version." ?? In-Reply-To: <000001c5e030$b68f64f0$0401010a@jfcl.com> Message-ID: 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > PUPS mailing list > PUPS at minnie.tuhs.org > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/pups >