Installing 4.3 BSD NFS Wisconsin Unix

Requirements

You will need the following materials to put together a 4.3 BSD+NFS Wisconsin Unix 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.
• The Mkdisttap.pl program, you can take the settings from Quasijarus as the names & block sizes match up.

You will need the following files from any 4 BSD archive from the 4.3BSD directory. I have used the files from mirror.cc.vt.edu. You can use whatever method you like to download them, wget, a web browser etc..

stand.gz
miniroot.gz
rootdump.gz
usr.tar.gz
srcsys.tar.gz
src.tar.gz

Preparing for installation

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 uwisc.tap .

% ./mkdisttap.pl > uwisc.tap
% ls -l uwisc.tap
-rw-r--r--  1 jsteve  None  74337572 Apr  7 19:40 uwisc.tap

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Life interrupts again... I'll have to finish later.. but it's just like a 4.3 BSD install.