[pups] simh and 2.11BSD

[John Floren]

On 5/24/06, Andru Luvisi <luvisi at andru.sonoma.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2006, John Floren wrote:
> [snip]
> > I can boot into what appears to be a workable system, but I'd like to
> have
> > networking and a larger hard drive. Can somebody help me out with
> getting
> > this set up? If anybody else out there has done the same thing, I'd like
> to
> > hear exactly what you did.
> > Thank you very much
>
> For networking, you need to:
>    compile simh with networking support
>    edit 211bsd.simh to
>      attach to the correct network device
>      use the hardware address that you want
>    Inside the system, you will need to edit /etc/hosts and /etc/netstart
>    to configure your hostname and networking options.
>    Reboot
>
> As for getting a bigger disk, you've got two options.  Reinstall on a
> larger disk image, or just mount a larger disk image onto the file system.
>
> To reinstall, read the directions in README.networked.211BSD and
> docs/2.11bsd_setup.txt .  If you do a fresh reinstall, you will need to
> recompile the kernel (as described in docs/2.11bsd_setup.txt) to get
> networking support.
>
> Or you can create a second, larger, disk image with dd, attach it, and
> label, format, and mount it from within the emulator.
>
> Best of luck,
> Andru
> --
> Andru Luvisi


When you say "use the hardware address you want", do you mean set it to the
host machine's MAC, or to something I make up?

John
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