[HECnet] SIMH VAX Project

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-07-01 02:02, Mark Benson wrote:
I have most of the issues with SIMH sorted out apart from one.

I ran up a couple of 4.8GB images using:

dd if=/dev/zero of=vaxvmsssys.iso bs=512 count=9600000

in Net BSD.

I then set the SIMH emulator up with:

set -L rq0 rauser=9600000

attach rq0 /sdcard/d0.dsk

Using info from here: http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/922

Which was a little vague, to say the least.

It all seemed to work fine. The disk works okay. However, it ran out of space by the time I'd installed VMS 7.3 (including DECwindows/MOTIF support, which I wanted for possible future remote graphical access) and tried to install TCP/IP UCX onto the system. I don't know how to check free space on a device, so I can't see the total blocks available compared to the original dd'd file. I wouldn't have thought VMS would fill a 4.8 GB disk though? It's supposed to install comfortable on an   RA92 and that was only 1.2 or 1.6 GB IIRC.

RA92 is 1.4G.
To check free space on your disks: "SHO DEV D"

And yes, 4.8GB should be more than enough. Not sure what is going on...

	Johnny

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