[Simh] porting RL01 images to RL02

[B Degnan]

Hi,
 I use simH pretty often on my Next Thing Co CHIP, and have documented a 
lot about it here and elsewhere on my web site
 http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=664
 ..these are things you all know probably very well already but I like to 
document my work so I remember and avoid reinventing the wheel.
  
 I have a question...I have a real PDP 11/40 with RL02 drives.  I have been 
able to port disk images made for the RL02 using PDPGUI onto the real 
drives.  I have RT11 running now.  I believe I can run RSX11M v 3.2 on my 
system if I can find a way to get it from RL01 images to RL02.  My question 
is ... Has anyone found a way to use simH to port disk images from RK05 or 
RL01 to RL02? 
  
 Scenario:
  
 1) Set up a 64K PDP 11/40 (like my actual system), attach two RL01's and 
one RL02
  
 2) Get the system running using the RL01 image of RSX11/M for example or 
RK05 DOS/BATCH
  
 3)  Once it's working on simH dump or copy the RL01 disk to RL02, maybe 
even merge two RL01's into one RL02.
  
 4)  Test in simH using the RL02(s)
  
 5)  Port disk to actual RL02 using PDPGUI.
  
 Just curious if this has ever been done, I assume its not as simple as 
copying say 5 1/4" disks to 3.5" in DOS, but maybe it's doable if you know 
simH and the OS you're porting has flexibility.  I would think back in the 
DEC days this problem was solved.  Maybe some OS's are better than others.  
Maybe the trick is somehow copying the drivers to a blank target disk 
first, then moving the files from the source minus the drive type drivers. 

  
 I am still learning, but I am at the point to ask what I hope is not an 
overly uninformed question like this.
  
 Bill Degnan