I meant to reply-all for this.
paul
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> On Oct 9, 2024, at 5:27 PM, Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 9, 2024, at 10:22 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Earlier there was a question about MSCP disk sizes. I did some checking.
>>>
>>> RSTS understands all the devices known by name in SIMH, including the
>>> "giant" RF73. As of the "big disk" support, which is in V10.1 and I think
>>> a few earlier versions, it can handle something that big. It draws the
>>> line at 4096 MB; bigger than that and it will tell you the disk is too big
>>> when you try to initialize it. I thought it might use only the part it can
>>> handle, but no, it simply refuses entirely.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>>
>> I hate to think what setting up a 4GB drive would look like. I have a 1GB
>> SCSI HD for my PDP-11/73 (assuming the drive isn’t dead). I still remember
>> just how long it took the RSTS/E 10.1 install to prepare that drive (so long
>> I only did a single pass on the drive test).
>>
>> On a related note, Paul, do you have any idea if RSTS/E can be installed
>> from a CD-ROM? I’ve done installs of RT-11 and RSX-11M+ from CD, but
>> couldn’t figure out how to do a RSTS/E install from CD. I can’t remember if
>> I was able to use 4mm DAT, or if I had to use a TK50 (it’s been a *LONG*
>> time since I did any installs).
>
> I have never seen a RSTS kit on CD-ROM, but it should work just fine. At one
> time I worked with Fred Knight to help create a "combined kits" CDROM -- one
> that would hold RSTS plus all the layered products on a bootable CD,
> including at least a dummy standard CDROM file system so you could recognize
> it. That required placing two file systems on one device, which turns out to
> be possible because the starting points ("superblock") of the two are in
> different blocks. My RSTSFLX V2.x supports creating such a thing.
>
> While I knew of the plans, I don't think they were ever completed; I
> certainly never saw any actual delivery.
>
> So anyway, if you were to create a RSTS disk image file with kits on it and
> an MSCP bootstrap, and burn that to CDROM, I would think it would be bootable
> and useable. You might give it a try!
>
> paul
