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- From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Subject: Re: A few questions from a novice on microvax station II
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.211641.11693@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Sender: alan@nabeth (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <2B48BCDF.28875@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:16:41 GMT
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- In article <2B48BCDF.28875@news.service.uci.edu>, refling@sloth.eng.uci.edu (John P. Refling) writes:
- >
- >I have inherited a microvax station II with tk50, 71 Mb hard disk,
- >ethernet card, etc. Looks pretty complete. The problem is that is
- >is running ultrix 1.1.
-
- Is it running ULTRIX-32m V1.1 or ULTRIX Worksystem Software (UWS)
- V1.1? There is a significant difference between the two. UWS V1.1
- uses ULTRIX V2.2 as the base operating system. ULTRIX-32m V1.1
- has support for the frame buffer of the VAXstation II and I'd
- guess runs an early X10 version.
-
- >I notice by reading the faq that ultrix is
- >up to about 4.3. The problem is of coarse that 1.1 uses about 30 Mb
- >while I gather that 4.3 uses upward of 300-400 Mb. That won't fit
- >on my 71 Mb disk.
- >
- >So, the first question is: how bad is 1.1, how good is 4.3, and what's
- >a good compromise between the two in terms of size/functionality?
-
- ULTRIX-32m V1.1 doesn't have support for YP, NFS, Bind, decent bad
- block replacement (though the RQDX3 does it's own). I don't think
- V1.1 supported any of the System V enhancements (shared memory, etc),
- but some of the simple library things may have been there.
-
- ULTRIX-32 V2.2 includes support for NFS, YP, diskless workstation
- support, Remote installation support, System V programming enhnacements,
- streaming tape support, the binary error logger and better BBR handling.
- I don't think there was any Bind support yet. The X release used by
- UWS V1.1 was X10R4.
-
- ULTRIX V4.3 has added even more stuff.
-
- > [ RQDX3 question deleted because I don't know the answer. ]
- >
- >Final question (for now): how to copy the TK50 boot tapes. I have
- >only one copy of the ultrix 1.1 distribution tape and do not feel
- >comfortable without a backup. I think it has something to do with
- >the dd utility, but am not sure.
-
- If it is ULTRIX-32m V1.1, then I think the distribution media
- was a varient of the Berkeley mini-root. I'd guess that if there
- was one tape, it had a enough bootable system to dd(1) the mini-root
- to the page/swap space, when you could then use to restore the 2nd
- or 3rd file of the tape, a dump(8) of a bigger root file system and
- from there boot it and restore the rest of the tape. V1.1 may not
- have been subseted.
-
- I think setld(8) came in around V2, in which case the distribution
- is as described in the FAQ.
-
- >
- >One more question: is this the right place to be asking these
- >questions or is there a better place?
-
- This is probably the right place.
-
- >
- >Thanks for any help!
- >
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- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
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