On 2021-08-14 12:18, Douglas Taylor via cctalk 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?
The "install tape" was distributed as a series of files which have to be written to a real tape with different block sizes. So if you have a directory with more than one .tap file, look for a shell script to write those to a tape drive ... There you will see, which file made the real boot tape ...
