[Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6

[Ray Jewhurst]

Thank you very much.  For future reference is there a simh to RSX (or any
other OS for that matter) conversion chart for the various devices?  It
would be quite handy.

Thanks again,
Ray

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> On 2017-05-07 21:05, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> I am trying to do my first installation and sysgen of RSX-11M+ (actually
>> first of any RSX-11!) and I am follow the instructions at
>> http://www.9track.net/pdp11/rsx4_sysgen and I am having problems right
>> out of the gate. When I try to copy the baseline system this is what I
>> get:
>>
>
> [...]
>
> Whatever instructions you are reading are wrong then.
>
> How about just test that /DEV switch which is mentioned, and you'd get a
> list of what devices are available.
>
> MSCP disks (rq and ra) are named DU, not DB. DB is RP04/05/06 disks.
>
> That said, MSCP disks are good, since then you can use any size on the
> disk.
> However, I'd also set it up as an 11/93, and not 11/73.
>
>         Johnny
>
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