unattended booting, was Re: [HECnet] DMC11 in next simh version... looks nice, and question about TOPS-10

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-03 03:17, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-01-03 02:56, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 01/02/2013 08:31 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-01-02 22:47, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 01/02/2013 04:43 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
(BTW the "buffered console" feature in 4.0 is also awesome,
specially to run headless simulators. Now if we could do an
unattended RSX boot it would be wonderful!).

Yes, an unattended RSX boot WOULD be nice. ;)

      You could probably do it with "expect".   I did some work in that
area
several years ago.   I remember I got pretty far with it.   I should try
to dig it up.

I'm not getting it. What is the problem with unattended RSX boots?

    Not just RSX.   For RSTS/E at least, date prompting and such.

That stuff sits in LB:[1,2]SYSTARTUP.CMD. Get your self (or emulate) an
11/9x, and the date will be correct, and then you edit the startup to
not ask the question, or ask it with a timeout...

Or else don't worry about an incorrect date at startup. Unattended boot
of RSX is trivial.

Doh! The file is LB:[1,2]STARTUP.CMD and nothing else.

	Johnny

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