[Simh] Installing layered products on RSTS/E 10.1

[Michael Richter]

On 22 February 2011 04:19, Rich Alderson <simh at alderson.users.panix.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

The problem with this is that there *is* no second tape.  There's only one
tape for any of them.  I understand the whole "mount a second tape thing" at
the operational level.  There just isn't a second tape.  Others have managed
to install these very same tapes on the very same version of the operating
system too, annoyingly enough.  There's some setup I'm not getting right
here.


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