[TUHS] Tape images of 2.9BSD for SIMH?

[Andru Luvisi]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Madcrow Maxwell wrote:
> I was wondering how I can turn the provided TAR files of 2.9BSD into a
> proper tape image for use with an emulator? Is a premade emu-friendly
> install tape available? I don't have either a real '11 or a physical
> tape drive on my computer?

This 2.11 image in:
http://www.tribug.org/pub/tuhs/PDP-11/Boot_Images/2.11_on_Simh/

contains a perl script which creates a bootable tape image from the tape 
files for 2.11BSD.  It shouldn't be too hard to modify it to do the same 
for 2.9BSD.

Andru
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