Installing 4.3 BSD RENO on SIMH - Revision history

Neozeed at 13:40, 18 August 2009

2009-08-18T13:40:48Z

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2009-07-18T03:30:09Z

fixed a link

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‎Cross installation notes

Neozeed at 20:17, 23 April 2009

2009-04-23T20:17:43Z

Neozeed: clairify a few steps after doing an install.

2009-02-08T09:00:31Z

clairify a few steps after doing an install.

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2009-02-07T03:44:32Z

‎Cross installation notes

Neozeed at 03:42, 7 February 2009

2009-02-07T03:42:00Z

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← Older revision		Revision as of 13:40, 18 August 2009
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−	[[Category:Tutorials]]	+	[[Category:SIMH Tutorials]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 03:30, 18 July 2009
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−	This is the procedure that I have used to install [[4.3 BSD]] onto [[SIMH]]'s [MicroVAX II] emulator. Please note that this is 4.3 BSD RENO.	+	This is the procedure that I have used to install [[4.3 BSD]] onto [[SIMH]]'s [[MicroVAX II]] emulator. Please note that this is 4.3 BSD RENO.

	*NOTE that the tape does NOT boot under SIMH. Instead you also need a 4.3 BSD system to build the bootable disk to be used for RENO.		*NOTE that the tape does NOT boot under SIMH. Instead you also need a 4.3 BSD system to build the bootable disk to be used for RENO.

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:06, 4 June 2009
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	touch /mnt2/var/spool/uucp/ERRORS		touch /mnt2/var/spool/uucp/ERRORS
		+	touch /mnt2/etc/sendmail.cf
		+	touch /mnt2/etc/named.boot
		+	touch /mnt2/etc/exports

	</pre>		</pre>

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 sh
 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
 cp /mnt2/usr/mdec/* /mnt2/mdec
 time to create /mnt2/etc/fstab
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 </pre>
+<pre>
 umount /dev/ra1g
 umount /dev/ra1a

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 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
 cp /mnt2/usr/mdec/* /mnt2/mdec
 umount /dev/ra1g
 umount /dev/ra1a
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-time to create /etc/fstab
+Now we can finally remove the lines we injected into /etc/rc & reboot.
-comment out the following lines in /etc/netstart
+Since we are still in the 11/780 mode, you will want to lay down a disklabel that the MicroVAX II can understand.
 <pre>
----8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
+disklabel -rw ra0 ra81 “Reno” /usr/mdec/rdboot /usr/mdec/bootra
 </pre>
 You should get something like this:

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 Here are my steps for anyone interested:
 -inside 4.3-----
 newfs /dev/ra1a ra81
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 tar xpbf 20 /dev/rmt12
 ----
 inject the following into /mnt2/etc/rc after export $PATH
 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
 mount -uw /dev/ra0a /
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 umount /dev/ra1a
 halt
--Now boot into 4.3RENO----
+<pre>
 mount /dev/ra0g /usr
 cd /dev
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 ./MAKEDEV dz0
 ./MAKEDEV pty0
-----
+</pre>
 time to create /etc/fstab
 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
 cat > /etc/fstab
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 /dev/ra0g	/usr	ufs	rw	1 2
 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
 touch /var/spool/uucp/ERRORS
-----
 comment out the following lines in /etc/netstart
 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
 #ifconfig imp0 inet $hostname
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 #ifconfig en0 inet $hostname netmask my-netmask
 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
 Now we can finally remove the lines we injected into /etc/rc
 Reboot & enjoy!
 You should get something like this:
+<pre>
 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
@@ Line 141: / Line 157: @@
 /dev/rra0a: 355 files, 3094 used, 4335 free (15 frags, 540 blocks, 0.2%
 fragmentation)
-/dev/rra0g: 3705 files, 42280 used, 202945 free (489 frags, 25307 blocks,
+/dev/rra0g: 3705 files, 42280 used, 202945 free (489 frags, 25307 blocks,0.2% fragmentation)
 starting network
 add host myname.my.domain: gateway localhost
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 TERM = (unknown)
 ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<
 Unfortunately the dz0 doesn't seem to work...
-And for completeness here is the config file I used to go between 4.3 & 4.3
+And for completeness here is the config file I used to go between 4.3 & 4.3 RENO
 ;4.3BSD RENO
 ;Note you can find the install instructions in the usr.tar
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 ;Run the emulator!
 run 2
+</pre>
 === Enabling remote users ===

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 === install.ini ===
 <pre>
 set rq0 ra82
 at rq0 reno.dsk
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 set rq2 dis
 set rq3 dis
 set rl dis
-set tq dis
+set ry dis
-set tu dis
+set ts dis
-att ts 43reno.tap
+set xq dis
 set tti 7b
 set tto 7b