[Simh] PDP 11 and rsts problem

[Bill Heaton]

Hi Brett,

Thanks Brett.  On the next rev of the howto I'll put an explicit note  
that the disk/tape image have to be unzipped.

Bill

On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Brett Bump wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I follow all the instructions that come with Bill's
>> package and I keep on getting the error:  HALT
>> instruction, PC:  000002  <HALT>.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?  Any help would appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ray
>
> Hi Ray,
>
> I was going to ask for more information about what you were doing,  
> but I
> decided to take a look at what Bill had zipped to see if there were  
> any
> problems with his archive (it seems to work fine Bill).
>
> Your booting an empty container file Ray.  In Bill's rsts.ini file it
> defines an RP04 as the container file that holds RSTS V9.6:
>
> set RP enable
> set RP0 RP04
> attach RP0 RSTS_V9.RP04
> echo RSTS_V9.RP04 mounted on RP0: (DB0:)
>
> If you have not unzipped his RSTS_V9.RP04 file from the  
> RSTS_V9.RP04.zip
> that he put in the Disks folder, SimH is going to create a new file  
> that
> will be empty (thus, you are booting an empty container file).
>
> Brett
>
> PS. Traditionally, the "System Manager account [1,2]" was setup with  
> the
> password "SECRET" and the "System Library account [1,1]" was "SYSLIB"
> (not system as in VMS sets).
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