by david
13. April 2011 08:30
This post continues my SIMH RT-11 tutorial... When you start RT-11 from the install disk the first time, you'll see some text like this:
Welcome to RT-11 V5.3
You have bootstrapped the RT-11 Distribution Disk. Use this disk to
install your RT-11 system, then store it in a safe place.
RT-11 V5.3 provides an automatic installation procedure which will
back up your distribution disk and build a working system disk which
should be used for your work with RT-11.
This working system disk will only contain the RT-11 operating
system. After the RT-11 installation is complete, follow the
installation instructions packaged with any optional languages or
utility software which you will be using.
Press the "RETURN" key when ready to continue.
I usually try to skip the automatic install procedure, since I'm more likely to learn stuff if I do all the setting up by hand. So after pressing RETURN, and getting asked "Do you want to use the automatic installation procedure?" I type "NO". After pressing RETURN a couple of times, we should be booted into RT-11.
Remember, if you ever mess up your boot disk and things go wrong, you can just re-copy a fresh version of rtv53_rl.dsk and we will get back to the start point above.