RT-11 installation

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David Betz wrote:

> I'm finally getting around to trying to do something with my PDP-11/23 
> system and am having trouble creating bootable RT-11 V5 disks. I have an 
> RX02 drive and a set of RX01 distribution disks. I've tried booting disk 
> 1 of the RX01 distribution and that fails. Should I be able to boot an 
> RX01 on an RX02 drive? Also, I've tried copying disks using:
> 
> COPY/WAIT/OUTPUT:DY1: DY0:
> 
> and then
> 
> COPY/BOOT DY1:RT11FB.SYS DY1:
> 
> Unfortunately, that doesn't result in a bootable disk. In fact, when I 
> did it, it trashed the system disk in DY0 even though I removed it 
> before and replaced it with the source disk of the copy. Does this sound 
> like I've got a broken drive? I seem to be able to read either RX01 
> disks or RX02 disks in DY1 without any problem. Also, the copy I made in 
> the first step above seems to be okay. It's just that I can't boot the 
> disk after the second COPY/BOOT step.
> 
> What dumb thing am I doing wrong?

   I may be wrong - I'm a newbie with RT-11, but if DY1 in the second 
step is the same floppy as DY1: in the first step, I don't think 
RT11FB.SYS exists on DY1:.

   I believe you need the /SYS option to include *.SYS files in the file 
copy.


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