Difference between revisions of "Installing 4.2 BSD on SIMH"
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gzip -d *.gz | gzip -d *.gz | ||
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| + | The tape needs to be created with the [[mkdisttap.pl]] program. Simply run the program and redirect it into a file called 42.tap . | ||
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| + | % ./mkdisttap.pl > 42.tap | ||
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| + | -rw-r--r-- 1 Neozeed +SYSTEM 69943640 Feb 6 12:39 42.tap | ||
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== Boot 1. == | == Boot 1. == | ||
| − | We are going to use the following config file to start the first phase of the installation. | + | We are going to use the following config file to start the first phase of the installation. Save the following configuration into a file such as '1.txt'. |
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set tq dis | set tq dis | ||
set tu dis | set tu dis | ||
| − | att ts 42 | + | att ts 42.tap |
set tti 7b | set tti 7b | ||
set tto 7b | set tto 7b | ||
Revision as of 19:39, 6 February 2009
This is the procedure that I have used to install 4.2 BSD onto SIMH's vax 11/780 emulator.
Requirements
You will need the following materials to put together a 4.2 BSD installation:
- A working perl interpeter to make the tape images.
- A copy of gzip.
- A method of extracting the boot file from either the binaries (tar/gzip) or uudecode to extract it from here.
- A compiled binary of vax780 from SIMH, along with the vmb.exe again from SIMH.
You will need the following files from any 4 BSD archive from the 4.2 directory. I have used the files from archive.huihoo.org. You can use whatever method you like to download them, wget, a web browser etc..
ingres.tar.gz
miniroot.gz
new.tar.gz
rootdump.gz
src.tar.gz
srcsys.tar.gz
stand.gz
usr.tar.gz
vfont.tar.gz
With the files downloaded you will need to uncompress them all and then create the tape file.
The following command will decompress the tape files.
gzip -d *.gz
The tape needs to be created with the mkdisttap.pl program. Simply run the program and redirect it into a file called 42.tap .
% ./mkdisttap.pl > 42.tap % ls -l 42.tap -rw-r--r-- 1 Neozeed +SYSTEM 69943640 Feb 6 12:39 42.tap
Next you will need the boot program. I have uploaded a copy onto this wiki in uuencoded format. To decode it, simply access the article, and copy the contents of the quoted text (the begin/end part INCLUDING the begin & end segments) and save it to a text file. Then you will need to run the uudecode file as follows:
% ls -l boot42.uue -rw-r--r-- 1 Neozeed None_ploc 9117 Feb 6 12:09 boot42.uue % uudecode boot42.uue % ls -l boot42 -rw------- 1 Neozeed None_ploc 6600 Feb 6 12:28 boot42 % file boot42 boot42: data
Boot 1.
We are going to use the following config file to start the first phase of the installation. Save the following configuration into a file such as '1.txt'.
set rq0 ra81 at rq0 miniroot set rq1 ra81 at rq1 rq.dsk set rq1 dis set rq2 dis set rq3 dis set rp dis set lpt dis set rl dis set tq dis set tu dis att ts 42.tap set tti 7b set tto 7b load -o boot42 0 d r10 9 d r11 0 run 2
