[Simh] Problems install RSX-11M+ v4.6
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Mon May 8 18:39:07 EDT 2017
On 2017-05-09 00:20, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
> Already have it my plans. First before I do the netgen I want to
> familiarize myself with RSX better.
Good idea.
You know about the "Introduction to RSX" manual? It might be a good
start, if you haven't already gone past that point. I don't know what
kind of experience you have...
And then the system managers manuals...
Johnny
>
> On May 8, 2017 5:27 PM, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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.____
>
> __ __
>
>
> The output of sim> SHOW RQ will show how big the disks will
> appear
> to the ____
>
> operating system once you start things running.____
>
> __ __
>
> *From:*Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com
> <mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com>
> <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>
> <mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com <mailto:raywjewhurst at gmail.com>>>
> *Cc:* simh <simh at trailing-edge.com
> <mailto:simh at trailing-edge.com> <mailto:simh at trailing-edge.com
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> *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>
> <mailto: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____
>
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>
>
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:51 PM, Johnny Billquist
> <bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>
> <mailto: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>
> <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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