<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Before you go too much farther, I would recommend that you get the latest version of simh:   <a href="https://github.com/simh/simh" target="_blank" style="">https://github.com/simh/simh</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A great deal has changed since simh 3 and you are likely to run into few issues.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Once you have that working, I would suggest you search the archives of the info-vax mailing lists: <a href="http://rbnsn.com/pipermail/info-vax_rbnsn.com/" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Info-vax Archives</a><font color="#000000"> and maybe subscribe to their mailing list</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> <span> </span></span><a href="http://rbnsn.com/mailman/listinfo/info-vax_rbnsn.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://rbnsn.com/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/info-vax_rbnsn.com</a> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best wishes,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Clem Cole</font></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aY2xlbWNAY2NjLmNvbQ%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=ef992581-6c55-4368-a7a4-854ee42e558d"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Henk van de Kamer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simh@vandekamer.com" target="_blank">simh@vandekamer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm new to this list, so forgive me if I do things wrong...<br>
<br>
For an article about the history of prompts I want to make screendumps of all systems I worked on. In 1986 (may be 1987) I learned Pascal on the VAX-11/785 (I think) on the university.<br>
<br>
So two days ago I started a journey to install VAX/VMS 4.4 -- because that is the most probable version used -- on a VAX-11/780 using the Simh emulator under Debian Stretch. That was the first problem because the man page of the vax780 command said that ka655.bin was not included. I found the ka655x.bin in the Simh git. Later I discovered that the man page is probably wrong and I must use vmb.exe instead.<br>
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After searching I found the bb-bt05c-be tape [1] which contains DEC VAX/VMS V4.4 BIN 16MT9 (C)1986 [2]. After a lot of trial, problems and searching I finally discovered that I need the Standalone Backup and a procedure for v3.0 [3]. Another searched and I got three tapes [4]:<br>
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    BE-CT97A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 1 OF 3<br>
    BE-CT98A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 2 OF 3<br>
    BE-CT99A-BE - VAX/VMS V4.0 STANDALONE BACKUP 3 OF 3<br>
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I adapted the given ini to the following -- the complete ini with the same adaptions don't give any difference:<br>
<br>
load vmb.exe<br>
set rp0 rp06<br>
set rp1 rp06<br>
attach rp0 stb40.rp6<br>
set console log=logs/vms44.log<br>
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Then the procedure:<br>
<br>
hvdkamer@obelix:~/vax$ vax780 vax780.ini<br>
<br>
VAX780 simulator V3.8-1<br>
Overwrite last track? [N]<br>
Logging to file "logs/vms44.log"<br>
sim> boot rp1<br>
Loading boot code from vmb.exe<br>
<br>
[ctrl-E]<br>
Simulation stopped, PC: 00000E8D (BITL #1000,4(R7))<br>
sim> attach ts bb-bt05c-be.tap<br>
sim> cont<br>
[Enter]<br>
<br>
<br>
And there it hangs. I downloaded the v3.0 tape used in the example, but that results in the same.<br>
<br>
The above looks the most promising of all examples I tried. Most used options which didn't work or crashed the emulator. Can someone point me in the right direction to install the operating system. Thanks for any help.<br>
<br>
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[1] <a href="ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/magtapes/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stutt<wbr>gart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/magt<wbr>apes/</a><br>
[2] <a href="ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/magtapes/labels.txt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stutt<wbr>gart.de/pub/cm/dec/vax/sw/magt<wbr>apes/labels.txt</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://simh.trailing-edge.narkive.com/P8L1m0CF/problem-booting-vms-1-5#post7" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://simh.trailing-edge.nark<wbr>ive.com/P8L1m0CF/problem-booti<wbr>ng-vms-1-5#post7</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX<wbr>-11-software.html</a><span class="m_2788892159217411189m_-6813794638690035734HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- <br>
<br>
Henk van de Kamer<br>
<a href="http://www.vandekamer.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.vandekamer.com/</a><br>
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