[pups] Hardware config for 2.11BSD Installation on PDP-11/73

Chuck Dickman chd at nktelco.net
Mon Feb 5 13:20:27 AEST 2001


"Steven M. Schultz" wrote:
> 
> > "Chuck Dickman" wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for helping me work through this. It looks like the boot device
> > must be within the first 8 devices that the firmware can see, but 2.11 BSD
> > wants all the unit number jumpers set to 0.
> 
>         Quite welcome!   The boot monitor can load anything, but once 'boot'
>         (or the kernel) is loaded they do not know how to deal with unit=8.
I think that was what I was trying to say, but you said it better.

Thanks.
> 
>         Steven Schultz
>         sms at moe.2bsd.com

Now if someone could help be double my memory. :-)

Chuck Dickman
chd at nktelco.net

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