[HECnet] DECnet startup on RSX11m+ V4.6

[Lee Gleason]

I must have used the same image you are talking about. I had to BRU it to a bigger disk first   to avoid running out of headers during the netgen.

Ah, I didn't save the mail message, but it involved setting the machine type in simh   to 11/93, so a TOY clock is available, and commenting out the time setting dialogue in [1,2]startup.cmd. That and putting the command "boot rq0" as the last command in PDP11.INI were enough to take care of the SIMH and RSX startup issues. Then I added an @reboot event in crontab that does the pdp11 command to start simh, and viola - RSX sunning whenever the power is on.

Yah, I figure I cold just edit [1,2]startup.cmd to execute a modified NETINS.CMD, edited to remove the questions about whatpieces   to start, but I'm wondering if that's   what the fast guys do

-----Original Message----- From: Mark Benson
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 4:18 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet startup on RSX11m+ V4.6


On 19 Apr 2013, at 21:26, Lee Gleason wrote:

  I   ve got DECNet running on RSX11m+ V4.6, on simh on a raspberry PI.

How did you do this, do you have the tape images? I have a pre-installed disk image for 4.6 but my NETGEN failed on it due to lack of file nodes and it needs migrating to a new disk with more nodes.

I   ve gotten RSX startup automated on PI power up thanks to a HECnet list discussion from a month or so ago.

Could you point me to the relevant archived mail conversation? I'm trying to do this myself with VAX and PDP-11 emulations :)

I   d like to automate the startup of DECnet   as well, so it all comes to life whenever power is applied.

  What   s the hot setup for automating this? I never had DECnet back in the day when I was managing 11s, so I never got to look into the best way to go about this.

Your bootstrap startup file is STARTUP.CMD - I think if you tack the command(s) (which I have forgotten, damned addled brain) in at a late but relevant position in that file it'll fire off when you bootstrap RSX-11M+. I used to have one of my previous RSX-11M+ 4.2 emulations setup this way.

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