[Simh] 3B2 Install Guide Correction

Madeline Autumn-Rose b4 at gewt.net
Mon Feb 18 17:13:23 EST 2019


Do you intend to eventually add TCP/IP to the tutorial?

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> On Feb 18, 2019, at 12:07, Seth Morabito <web at loomcom.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019, at 12:05 PM, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
>> SIMH Fans,
>> 
>> I'm endeavoring to follow the install UNIX from scratch guide at:
>> 
>>    https://LoomCom.com/3b2/installing_unix.html
>> 
>> On my first attempt I overlooked an error at the end of the format hard disk
>> step, and encountered out of disk space errors during the install process.
>> I tried again using a downloaded preformatted disk image and encountering
>> the same out of disk space errors during the install.  I finally noticed the
>> boot.ini file at the beginning of the article has:
>> 
>>    set id0 hd161
>> 
>> instead of:
>> 
>>    set idisk0 hd161
>> 
>> After making the above correction my install appears to be progressing
>> normally.
> 
> Oh dear. Thanks for spotting this error, Kevin. I will fix the incorrect page right away!
> 
> (The name of the hard disk device was recently changed from 'ID' to 'IDISK' to avoid a collision with an internal SIMH command name.)
> 
> -Seth
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