Hobbyist DECnet Network - Update

Brad Parker brad at heeltoe.com
Sat Dec 17 16:22:03 CST 2005


"Tim" wrote:
>
>What DEC OS's support DecNet?  I do not have the ability to
>run RSX-11.  I am still trying to get a full install of BSD 2.11
>onto my pdp-11/84.  Will BSD support DecNet?  My problem at this
>point is getting the rest of the install over to the system.
>I have the root install done, but have the 3 large tar files
>with no easy way to get them to the host.

If you can ethernet you can rcp the files. I've done that with bsd on a
vax.  Basically I mount a big partitionon the disk, rcp the file over
and then untar it.

I suspect you don't have a qbus ethernet card.   Is that the case?

-brad


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