On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Noel Chiappa <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> Is there any interest in all this? If so, I can put together a web page > with > the V6-verion VTServer source, along with the modified V6 serial line stuff > (including a short description of the extended stty/gtty interface), etc. > Yes please.... > > So I guess my next step, if I don't hear shortly from someone who has > previously used VTServer to install V6, is to start on actually getting > a V6 file system created. > I think there are rk05 images in bit savers, check out uv6swre > > I'm still vacillating over whether it would be better to go V6-style (and > just transfer a complete, small existing V6 filesystem), > The issue is even at 9600 baud, you do need to download 2.4Mbytes which will take a few minutes. So you would need to create a very small root FS and then you get into how much is enough. > or V7-style (and > get stand-alone 'mkfs', etc running with V6-format file systems). Anyone > have an opinion? > Basically it depends how many commands you need. Clearly, you need to V6-afy the V7 standalone system and then for each app you need, you have to both v6-afy and add the #ifdef STANDALONE hacks. Clearly you need mkfs, and probably need a one or more other programs in the key of restor, tar, tp, dd or the like to copy things. That's going to be a bit a work - although once you have done it, it will be handy I suspect. Clem
