[Simh] Installing layered products on RSTS/E 10.1

[Michael Richter]

OK, thanks for the reply and I apologize for my tardiness in getting around
to this.

Well, I've got the following in my .ini file (eliding the unnecessary
stuff):

set tu enable
> set tu tm03
> ...
> set tu1 format=tpc
> attach -er tu1 tapes/ro/BASIC-PLUS-2-V2.6.TPC
> ...


When I fire up RSTS/E 10.1 I do the following:

$ mount mm1
%Device is write protected
Density is 800
Tape is in ANSI format
Label:   bp2
$ dir mm1:
 Name .Typ    Size        Name .Typ    Size        Name .Typ    Size
MM1:
INSTAL.BCK*     97 P     BP2REL.BCK*     26 P     BP2   .BCK*   1856 P
PBLT  .BCK*    728 P
Total of 2707 blocks in 4 files in MM1:


So now I run @[0,1]instal layered_products and select BP2 when given the
opportunity.  It goes through the usual questions: mount device, target
account, etc. and then, after collecting all that information asks me if I'm
ready to proceed.  When I answer "yes":

  RSTS/E V10.1-L Software Installation Procedure            20-Feb-11 01:08
AM


                                  Build Phase


Restoring BP2 update components from the Installation kit
Please mount volume 2 on _MM1:.
Press RETURN to continue :

I'm just at a loss here.  The tape is mounted.  It looks perfectly fine when
I take a directory of it.  What's weirder is that I can't do anything with
MM1: once I've run instal.  The device is offline and I can't for the life
of me figure out how to do anything with it after that.  set device mm1:
/enable doesn't do the trick nor does anything else I can find.




On 1 February 2011 01:47, Christopher Myers <thisisentchris87 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Where are you getting your layered products?  I get mine from here:
> ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/rsts_dists/
>
> These are the products I installed successfully and never needed a 2nd
> volume:
> fms11_v2_1.tpc
> decnet-e_v4_1.tap
> bp2_v2_7.tap
> f77_v5_3.tpc
> fortran_iv_v2_8.tap
>
> Never got c81 to install, RSTS/E won't install it (keeps complaining about
> format) and the tape files appear to be formatted differently than the other
> software.  Doesn't matter to me, I don't know Cobol.
>
>
>
> So to try some ideas, try the full command, @[0,1]instal layered_products
>
> Also make sure your tapes are mounted right and possibly the correct
> hardware:
>
> For example bp2:
> attach -e -r TU3 bp2_v2_7.tap
>
> I used TM03 magnetic tape drives and never locked them.
>
> For me RSTS/E will complain about the file format so I need to run nearly
> all of my layered products with this (even if its a .tap, not a .tpc):
> set TUn FORMAT=TPC
>
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