Strategy for inst. UNIX on my PDP11?
Steven M. Schultz
sms at moe.2bsd.com
Fri Apr 17 01:47:14 AEST 1998
Greetings -
> From: Jorgen Pehrson <jp at spektr.ludvika.se>
>
> What's the best way of installing UNIX on my PDP11/83?
> What I have:
> PDP11/83, RD52, a QIC tape streamer doing some sort of TS11 emulation.
That tape device sounds like it is a TK25. It uses the DC600A
(60mb) cartridges.
> A MicroVAX II with a TK50 streamer and NetBSD installed. DEQNA ethernet.
> And I have a spare DEQNA laying about.
The DEQNA is supported by 2.11BSD so it would be a good idea to add
that board to the 11/83.
> What I was thinking of doing is writing the distribution to TK50 on the
> MVII, move the TK50 streamer to the PDP and go from there.
Ok - that will work fine. Another possiibility would be to move the
TK25 (QIC) drive to the uVax-II and write the tapes to DC600A tapes.
Then move the TK25 back to the 11/25 and boot
> Is the RD52 big enough to contain a complete system?
Alas no. The RD52 is only ~30mb (the RD53 is about 70mb and the RD54
is ~159mb). A complete 2.11 system needs about 100mb (~8mb for a
root filesystem, 4mb for a swap partition and ~80mb for sources plus
binaries). A ZIP cartridge will (just) hold a complete 2.11 system
(with about 8mb left over). To hold a complete 2.11 system you'll
need either two RD53 drives or a single RD54.
A minimal system (root filesystem plus selected binaries from /usr)
could be installed on a RD52 but it would definitely not be a complete
system capable of recompiling itself.
> What UNIX versions will work on my PDP? I was thinking of installing
> 2.11BSD.
2.11 is an excellent match for the 11/83. Earlier versions (2.9 for
example) will have a difficult time because MSCP support did not
arrive until 2.10BSD. TMSCP support was not present until 2.10.1BSD
Steven Schultz
sms at moe.2bsd.com
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