VAX 11/725

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Mon Dec 6 18:39:30 CST 2004


> 
> Heinz Wolter <h.wolter at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if it is possible to load BSD (quasisaurus) on TU58, as I have
> > no 9 track take or ethernet on the system.
> 
> One TU58 cassette holds 256 KB of data.  The root filesystem is about
> 5 MB, /usr about 21 MB.  You do the math.  That's just the binaries, more
> for source.

Presumably, therefore, running it from a single R80 disk is not really 
practical either (at least not if you want to have the sources, or at 
least enough to rebuilt the kernel, on the disk). 

-tony



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