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

Ray Jewhurst raywjewhurst at gmail.com
Mon May 8 18:20:49 EDT 2017


Already have it my plans. First before I do the netgen I want to
familiarize myself with RSX better.

On May 8, 2017 5:27 PM, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

On 2017-05-08 05:03, Ray Jewhurst wrote:

> I wanted to thank everyone for all the advice my system is up and
> running.  Next up learning more and then doing a netgen.
>

Hey, excellent!

May I suggest that after installing DECnet, you might want to install
TCP/IP? ;-)

        Johnny


> Thanks again
> Ray
>
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com
> <mailto:Mark at infocomm.com>> wrote:
>
>     Since simh autosizes MSCP disks, if you keep using the same original
>     disk ____
>
>
>     Images you might have created initially, you may not be changing
>     anything ____
>
>
>     if you keep on attaching the same disk image after you change the
>     disk type.____
>
>     __ __
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>
>     The output of sim> SHOW RQ will show how big the disks will appear
>     to the ____
>
>     operating system once you start things running.____
>
>     __ __
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>     *From:*Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
>     <mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com>] *On Behalf Of *Johnny
> Billquist
>     *Sent:* Sunday, May 7, 2017 4:31 PM
>     *To:* Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com
>     <mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com>>
>     *Cc:* simh <simh at trailing-edge.com <mailto:simh at trailing-edge.com>>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6____
>
>     __ __
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>
>     The 128k thing is physical memory, which is sonething else than size
>     of the disk. There is an option in simh in the config to explicitly
>     tell how large disk you want. Check the documentation.
>
>     Use a disk of at least 1g, and we can move on to the next problem,
>     which is going to be the number of file headers on the disk, unless
>     you read that manual I gave the link to.
>
>     Easy howto pages on the internet are nice, but sooner or later you
>     need to read the docs and understand what you are doing.
>
>     Johnny
>
>     ____
>
>     Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com
>     <mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com>> skrev: (8 maj 2017 01:08:19 CEST)____
>
>
>         I tried running every size disk imaginable and I still get the
>         same error and it still states 128KW.  The small disk I tried
>         was 159MB. BTW, that prebuilt system also had the same error and
>         128KW again and it was a approx 10MB Massbus disk running on a
>         11/45.Could this be a bug?  I am following everything to a T.
>         Should I try a non-plus sysgen to see if I get the same error?____
>
>         Doing my best,____
>
>         Ray____
>
>         __ __
>
>
>         On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
>         <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:____
>
>             On 2017-05-07 23:01, Alan Frisbie wrote:____
>
>                 On 05/07/2017 01:21 PM, Ray Jewhurst wrote:____
>
>
>
>                     RSX-11M-PLUS V4.6  BL87 128.KW <http://128.KW>
>                     <http://128.KW>  System:"Baseline"
>                      >RED DU:=SY:
>                      >RED DU:=LB:
>                      >RED DU:=SP:
>                      >MOU DU0:"RSX11MPBL87"
>                      >@[2,54]BASTART.CMD
>                     12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation
> failure
>                     12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation
> failure
>                     12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation
> failure
>                     12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation
> failure
>                     12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation
> failure
>                     12:46:19  *** GEN    Checkpoint space allocation
>                     failure____
>
>
>
>
>                 This means that the disk you are running from (DU0:)
>                 does not
>                 have enough free space for RSX to allocate a checkpoint
>                 file.____
>
>
>
>             Ah! Yes, of course. Thanks for that, Alan. Didn't even think
>             about the possibility that the disk would be that small,
>             since he was using MSCP.
>
>             Ray, start over, and create disk image files that are
>             larger.____
>
>
>                 Start over and tell SIMH to make DU0: (rq0) larger.   I
>                 would
>                 suggest at least 32 MB if you plan to do anything useful
>                 with
>                 the system.   Don't go above 500 MB, however, as the
>                 ODS-1 disk
>                 structures can't handle anything that large.____
>
>
>
>             No, ODS-1 handles larger disks fine. The limit is 8G. If you
>             go above that, there is no harm, but the disk will just be
>             truncated to 8G anyway, so no point in going larger.
>             I would suggest something around 2G or so, and you're set
>             for life.
>             (Personally I run with four 8G drives, but then again, I'm
>             not exactly normal when it comes to RSX...)
>
>                     Johnny
>
>             --
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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
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