V7 startup

[Warren Toomey]

In article by Allison J Parent:
> One thing I'd like to do is have some additional storage other than the 
> one RL02 drive I have.  I figure that could easily be a RX02 but it's not 
> obvious how to add that (to V7unix that is).  The RQDX3/RD52 would be 
> nice but I'll settle for a RX01/2.  

The kernel you got probably doesn't have much else. I could build another
kernel for you. Once you get the source license, you'll be able to do it
youself!
 
> The other is the date is 1988... month and day are setable but year?

# man date


DATE(1)                                                   DATE(1)

NAME
       date - print and set the date

SYNOPSIS
       date [ yymmddhhmm [ .ss ] ]

DESCRIPTION
       If  no  argument  is  given, the current date and time are
       printed.  If an argument is given,  the  current  date  is
       set.   yy is the last two digits of the year; the first mm
       is the month number; dd is the day number in the month; hh
       is  the hour number (24 hour system); the second mm is the
       minute number; .ss is optional and is  the  seconds. 
 
> Is there any way to get it to stay in 8/n/1 (my system(s) default) rather 
> than 7/e/1.

What serial devices do you have? I think V7 expected hardwired things
like KL-11s.

Anyway, here's some of the stty(1) manual.

SYNOPSIS
       stty [ option ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       Stty sets certain I/O options on the current output termi-
       nal.  With no argument, it reports the current settings of
       the  options.   The  option  strings are selected from the
       following set:

       even    allow even parity
       -even   disallow even parity
       odd     allow odd parity
       -odd    disallow odd parity
       50 75 110 134 150 200 300 600 1200 1800 2400 4800 9600
               exta extb
               Set terminal baud rate to  the  number  given,  if
               possible.   (These are the speeds supported by the
               DH-11 interface).

 
> The last one bugged me some... there is no shutdown!  To kill the system 
> all I could do was make sure there weren't any excess processes running 
> do a sync and hit restart.  I assume this is ok as I use the same method
> for venix on the pro350, so far I haven't mashed that system.

I think that's all you could do.

	Warren

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