[Simh] Installing layered products on RSTS/E 10.1

[Rich Alderson]

> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:15:56 +0800
> From: Michael Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com>

> 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:

  [snip]

> 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":

  [snip]

> 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.

Michael,

I've never installed software on RSTS/E, but I suspect that it's not
dissimilar to installing software on other operating systems for hardware
of similar design vintage:  More than 1 tape is involved.  When the first
tape's content has been loaded onto the disk, the operating system rewinds
and dismounts the tape and you are prompted to mount the next one.

What you need to do is to type the WRU character (SimH defaults this to ^E)
to get back to the simulator prompt and issue an ATTACH command for the
next tape in the installation sequence.  This should be described in the
installation manual.

Hope that helps.

                                                                Rich Alderson