[HECnet] RSX11M 4.6 complete installation logs

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-07-15 17:54, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
I've completed 3 posts about the installation/generation of a RSX11M 4.6 (no plus) system from scratch under the simh simulator. If someone is interested, the links are:

http://ancientbits.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/installing-rsx-11m-46-from-scratch-part.html
http://ancientbits.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/installing-rsx-11m-46-from-scratch-part_12.html
http://ancientbits.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/installing-rsx-11m-46-from-scratch-part_15.html

(There is no addsense in that blog, even though I must confess I tried to enable it and was rebuked by google because of "lack of content"   ;), so this obvious spamming has no monetary interests behind ;)).

Read through them. My first reaction is that you are pretty much just letting ACF figure out your hardware, and taking the default answer almost everywhere. That is certainly a valid approach, and it makes life easy. However, if you ever need to start actually change anything, life becomes much more complex, and your guide leaves the user totally helpless. Atleast a few comments about the whats, whys and wheres would probably be useful.
Also, even though you say you have your system installed, finished, and done, it is not. You have not installed RMS, for instance, which many layered produects will require. You built all your tasks to not use any shared libraries, there are potential problems with doing a SAV /WB, as well as the generated system from the VMR step, that you should look at.
Also, there are potentially interesting stuff to change in the SYSVMR.CMD file, before you build your system.

The queue manager is something you start in your SYSTARTUP.CMD, but unless my memory fails me, that is also something that needs some extra steps when you create it the first time, before it actually works in a usable way.
XDT is sometimes a very nice thing to have in your system as well, which you skipped. Might be worth at least mentioning.

I can't remember offhand what else might be good to do/know, but that is partly a problem because I don't use 11M much these days, partly because I know my way around RSX pretty good, and partly because I just forget things. I might remember more later, or after some additional read throughs. :-)

Anyway, it's nice to see someone doing this kind of stuff. Keep at it. Hope someone finds it useful.

	Johnny

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