Qbus
Veteran Member
This is the exact reason I like working on hardware and hate software! Ok, so I have a RL-01 disk that I want to wipe and create a bootable system disk. It currently has a stupid directory called “pictures” and the system will not boot from it. It’s from a medical imaging system that had three drives and ran an 11/34 CPU but I have no interest in the contents of the old drive and want to build a bootable RT-11 system disk on that pack. So if I start my system (11/23) with the mystery disk in DL0 and boot the system from DY0 (RX02 drive) RT-11 V4 comes up and operates. Keep in mind that I know squat about working in RT-11 so that don’t help. I can run “show” and see that DY0 is the current system drive and “DK” and I always thought by reassigning using my favorite “ass” command DL0 to “DK” that would allow me to read the directory in DL0 but when I try to read a directory of DL0 all I get is a stupid “illegal directory” response. If I use a good RL-01 pack in DL0 everything works good and I can go from DL to DY move files and all that sort of stuff but the problem is how to clean off or format the new pack so I can copy all the files from a DY (RX02) floppy and build a new system disk in the RL drive? Keep in mind that I have a vague idea on how to use the “COPY” command and its “BOOT” switch but when I try to do this now or what ever I do every time I try to go the DL disk pack it won’t do it. So if anyone has any idea on how I can get into this drives directory I would like to hear them, and I did try using “ASSIGN” and gave DL0 all kind of names from “DK’, VOLUME and PICTURES but no matter what cant see that drives directory. I am going back and will try reading the PDP-11 How to Book and maybe that will help.
