Installing 4.3 BSD Quasijarus on SIMH - Revision history

Larsbrinkhoff: /* Creating the disk label */ ASCII " double quotes.

2021-09-06T10:02:25Z

‎Creating the disk label: ASCII " double quotes.

Dugo: reinstate the hint aboute the TYPE command on windows boxen

2020-06-27T21:23:17Z

reinstate the hint aboute the TYPE command on windows boxen

Dugo: add windows tips

2020-06-27T18:24:42Z

add windows tips

Dugo: The original gzcompat doesn't do well on windows unless you coerce fread/fwrite to binary

2020-06-27T10:26:26Z

The original gzcompat doesn't do well on windows unless you coerce fread/fwrite to binary

Neozeed: ifctfvax.harhan.org is offline

2016-10-27T01:20:33Z

ifctfvax.harhan.org is offline

Neozeed: ftp.arcane-networks.fr is no more! updating to my sourceforge mirror

2016-10-27T01:16:06Z

ftp.arcane-networks.fr is no more! updating to my sourceforge mirror

Dugo: /* Preparing for installation */ typo

2011-10-10T10:09:43Z

‎Preparing for installation: typo

Dugo: /* Preparing for installation */ add disk

2011-10-02T13:47:25Z

‎Preparing for installation: add disk

Dugo: /* gzcompat */

2011-10-02T12:36:11Z

‎gzcompat

Neozeed at 13:39, 18 August 2009

2009-08-18T13:39:31Z

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 <pre>
-disklabel -rw ra0 ra82 “Quasijarus” /usr/mdec/rdboot /usr/mdec/bootra
+disklabel -rw ra0 ra82 "Quasijarus" /usr/mdec/rdboot /usr/mdec/bootra
 </pre>

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 </pre>
-The tape needs to be created with the [[mkdisttap.pl]] program. Simply run the program and redirect it into a file called quas.tap. You may need to make small edit when running on Windows. Instructions in the link.
+The tape needs to be created with the [[mkdisttap.pl]] program. Simply run the program and redirect it into a file called quas.tap. You may need to make a few small edits and use TYPE instead of cat when running on Windows. Hints in the link.
 <pre>

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 === gzcompat ===
-Next it's easier on a host machine to convert the downloaded Quasijarus files into gzip, then uncompress them using gzip.  For this you will need the [[gzcompat]] program.  I've included the sourcecode on the link, as it's getting harder to find.. Simply compile the gzcompat.c into an exe.  It should be somewhat straightforward. The original location for gzcompat is [[http://ifctfvax.superglobalmegacorp.com/releases/UNIX/components/compress.tar here]] and a known good copy is [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/components/compress.tar here]].
+Next it's easier on a host machine to convert the downloaded Quasijarus files into gzip, then uncompress them using gzip.  For this you will need the [[gzcompat]] program.  The sourcecode and a patch for windows compatibility on the link, as it's getting hard to find. Simply compile gzcompat.c. It should be straightforward. The original location for gzcompat is [[http://ifctfvax.superglobalmegacorp.com/releases/UNIX/components/compress.tar here]] and a known good copy is [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/components/compress.tar here]].
 On most instances with gcc simply run:
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 </pre>
-The tape needs to be created with the [[mkdisttap.pl]] program.  Simply run the program and redirect it into a file called quas.tap .
+The tape needs to be created with the [[mkdisttap.pl]] program. Simply run the program and redirect it into a file called quas.tap. You may need to make small edit when running on Windows. Instructions in the link.
 <pre>

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 With the files downloaded you will need to uncompress them all and then create the tape file.  With the different compression this will be somewhat involved.
-The following command will decompress the tape files, on a UNIX install.  For Windows users, use the type command, instead of cat.
+The following command will decompress the tape files, on a UNIX install.
 <pre>
 cat miniroot.Z | gzcompat | gzip -dc > miniroot

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 === gzcompat ===
-Next it's easier on a host machine to convert the downloaded Quasijarus files into gzip, then uncompress them using gzip.  For this you will need the [[gzcompat]] program.  I've included the sourcecode on the link, as it's getting harder to find.. Simply compile the gzcompat.c into an exe.  It should be somewhat straightforward. The original location for gzcompat is [[ftp://ifctfvax.harhan.org/pub/UNIX/components/compress.tar here]] and a known good copy is [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/components/compress.tar here]].
+Next it's easier on a host machine to convert the downloaded Quasijarus files into gzip, then uncompress them using gzip.  For this you will need the [[gzcompat]] program.  I've included the sourcecode on the link, as it's getting harder to find.. Simply compile the gzcompat.c into an exe.  It should be somewhat straightforward. The original location for gzcompat is [[http://ifctfvax.superglobalmegacorp.com/releases/UNIX/components/compress.tar here]] and a known good copy is [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/components/compress.tar here]].
 On most instances with gcc simply run:

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-You will need the following files from any 4 BSD archive from the Quasijarus0c directory.  I have used the files from [http://ftp.arcane-networks.fr/pub/mirrors/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/ http://ftp.arcane-networks.fr/pub/mirrors/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/].  You can use whatever method you like to download them, wget, a web browser etc..<br><br>
+You will need the following files from any 4 BSD archive from the Quasijarus0c directory.  I have used the files from [https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Quasijarus%200c/ifctfvax/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/ Sourceforge].  You you will have to use a web browser to download them, to deal with the sourceforge download system.  But that's the price of free hosting.<br><br>
-[http://ftp.arcane-networks.fr/pub/mirrors/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/stand.Z stand.Z]<br>
+[https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Quasijarus%200c/ifctfvax/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/stand.Z/download stand.Z]<br>
-[http://ftp.arcane-networks.fr/pub/mirrors/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/miniroot.Z miniroot.Z]<br>
+[https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Quasijarus%200c/ifctfvax/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/miniroot.Z/download miniroot.Z]<br>
-[http://ftp.arcane-networks.fr/pub/mirrors/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/rootdump.Z rootdump.Z]<br>
+[https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Quasijarus%200c/ifctfvax/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/rootdump.Z/download rootdump.Z]<br>
-[http://ftp.arcane-networks.fr/pub/mirrors/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/usr.tar.Z usr.tar.Z]<br>
+[https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Quasijarus%200c/ifctfvax/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/usr.tar.Z/download usr.tar.Z]<br>
-[http://ftp.arcane-networks.fr/pub/mirrors/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/srcsys.tar.Z srcsys.tar.Z]<br>
+[https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Quasijarus%200c/ifctfvax/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/srcsys.tar.Z/download srcsys.tar.Z]<br>
-[http://ftp.arcane-networks.fr/pub/mirrors/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/src.tar.Z src.tar.Z]<br><br>
+[https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Quasijarus%200c/ifctfvax/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c/src.tar.Z/download src.tar.Z]<br><br>
 === gzcompat ===
-Next it's easier on a host machine to convert the downloaded Quasijarus files into gzip, then uncompress them using gzip.  For this you will need the [[gzcompat]] program.  I've included the sourcecode on the link, as it's getting harder to find.. Simply compile the gzcompat.c into an exe.  It should be somewhat straightforward. The original location for gzcompat is [[ftp://ifctfvax.harhan.org/pub/UNIX/components/compress.tar here]] and a known good copy is [[ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/bsd/UnixArchive/4BSD/Distributions/components/compress.tar here]].
+Next it's easier on a host machine to convert the downloaded Quasijarus files into gzip, then uncompress them using gzip.  For this you will need the [[gzcompat]] program.  I've included the sourcecode on the link, as it's getting harder to find.. Simply compile the gzcompat.c into an exe.  It should be somewhat straightforward. The original location for gzcompat is [[ftp://ifctfvax.harhan.org/pub/UNIX/components/compress.tar here]] and a known good copy is [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/components/compress.tar here]].
 On most instances with gcc simply run:

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 <pre>
-% dd if=/dev/zero of=quas.dsk bs=512count=1216665
+% dd if=/dev/zero of=quas.dsk bs=512 count=1216665
 </pre>

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 %</pre>
-Now we have our tape, so we are ready to proceed with the install.  For those wondering, unlike the 11/780 emulator, the MicrovaxII can run it's microcode in a logical fashion and we are able to boot from tape in this release.
+An empty RA82 can be created with:
 ==  Boot 1. ==

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