On Sat, Aug 14, 2021, 2:08 PM Douglas Taylor <dj.tayl...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 8/14/2021 1:54 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 10:19 AM Douglas Taylor via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> I ran into a YouTube video, that it is 5 years old, titled "Ultrix-11 >> 3.1 on an emulated PDP-11/73" and I found it very interesting. >> It shows installation of Ultrix-11 under SIMH. The fellow steps through >> the installation process and appears to be quite knowable. >> I wanted to replicate it but couldn't locate the *.tap file used in the >> video that was an image of the bootable TK50 distribution. >> Bitsavers and tuhs.org have Ultrix-11 files, but not the bootable tape >> image. >> Anyone know where the tape image is located? >> > > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/DEC/Ultrix-3.1/ > has ultrix-3.1-bootape.tar.gz and seems to be, at first blush, the boot > tape (or its files) that you are looking for. > > Warner > > I took a look at that file and don't exactly know what to do with it. It > is not a bootable image of a tape, but rather the files that are on that > tape. Have to do some more digging. Its a learning experience. > There are several prep programs that take the tape files and make a .tap file. Warner >
