24 May
2006
24 May
'06
5:46 a.m.
Hello everyone, I'm just trying to get into PDP-11 Unix.
I have a couple older machines lying around not doing much (a SPARCstation 4
and an Ultra 1), and I've been fiddling around with the simh pdp11 and
2.11BSD on the Ultra 1. I can get the system to boot using the
211bsd.simhconfig file from the tarball here:
http://ftp.gcu-squad.org/tuhs/PDP-11/Boot_Images/2.11_on_Simh/
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
John F.
24 May
24 May
4:47 p.m.
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
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7:25 p.m.
On 5/24/06, Andru Luvisi <luvisi(a)andru.sonoma.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 24 May 2006, John Floren wrote:
[snip]
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
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
7:31 p.m.
On Wed, 24 May 2006, John Floren wrote:
[snip]
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?
[snip]
Something you make up.
Andru
--
Andru Luvisi
Quote Of The Moment:
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
( Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound. )
7:42 p.m.
On 5/24/06, Andru Luvisi <luvisi(a)andru.sonoma.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 24 May 2006, John Floren wrote:
[snip]
<snipped>
Okay, done that, but when I try to "attach xq eth0" I get the error
"Command
not allowed". This occurs even when running as root. I believe I have
correctly built libpcap and simh, but the problem remains. Suggestions?
John
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?
[snip]
Something you make up.
8:19 p.m.
On Wed, 24 May 2006, John Floren wrote:
[snip]
Okay, done that, but when I try to "attach xq
eth0" I get the error "Command
not allowed". This occurs even when running as root. I believe I have
correctly built libpcap and simh, but the problem remains. Suggestions?
[snip]
I'm not very familiar with the libpcap magic. I suggest asking on the
simh mailing list (information at
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/help.html)
Andru
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