Installing 4.0 BSD on SIMH

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This is the procedure is copied from tom yam to install 4.0 BSD onto SIMH's VAX 11/780 emulator.

Requirements

  • You will need a working copy of SIMH's vax780.exe for your platform.
  • A 4.0 BSD install tape. You can download one from sourceforge
  • A copy of bzip2 to decompress the tape image

Preparing for installation

Booting from tape