On 2/21/2022 6:55 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 4:32 PM Rod Smallwood via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:Hi I have built an 11/83 in a BA23 box. It has a KDJ-11B, 2mB PMI memory, an RQDX3 with an RX50 attached, Plus a CMD CQD 220A Disk controller with a digital RH18A 2Gig SCSI drive attached. Diag sees drive as RA82. It boots and runs the diag disk and XXDP+ just fine. I do not have install distributions for any of the 11/83 operating systems. Daily driver system is a Windows 10 PC. So how do I install an operating system? Suggestions please. Thanks RodIs the PC old enough to still have PCI slots? If it is, one option would be to pick up a cheap PCI SCSI controller, e.g. an AHA-2940, that you can use to write disk images to a SCSI hard drive. Then use SIMH to create disk images of an OS of interest that can then be dumped to the SCSI hard drive. Or pick up a SCSI2SD device to use with the CMD CQD-220A instead of a SCSI disk drive. Then copy disk images created using SIMH on the PC to an SD card. Is the CQD-220A a /TM version, or an /E version? If it's a /TM version you could also pick up a cheap SCSI tape drive, and create installation tapes for RSTS/E or 2.11BSD and boot from those to install on a SCSI hard drive. I've done that a few times just for the heck of installing from tape. If you have the /E version (or /T/M version) instead of the /TM version you can do either MSCP or TMSCP, but not both at the same time. For RT-11, that is small enough it wouldn't be difficult to install from RX-50 disks, if you had a means to create disks from images.
Another alternative would be, after installing an OS under SimH using another program as was suggested here, to transfer the disk image (e.g. vtserver https://github.com/chapmajs/vtserver ).
JRJ
