FOR VERSADOS 4.3 WITH 15MB HD

Installing and Copying floppies onto a hard disk

1. Place the floppy disk (BT01:) in floppy drive, FD02. 
     use menu to open file for FD02, select BT01.IMD

2  Place a fresh HD in HD00
use menu create new disk RAW to create a 15MB hd.
use menu to open the newly created HD image in HD00


FOR BSOD
 do a Power On Reset, wait for the "D0" in the FP led

 stop emulator

 select boot disk FD02 from boot menu

 select BO from boot menu

 the command line should be 0.VMES10.VERSADOS.SY (all caps for 4.3)  OK

FOR TENBUG

 do a POR on reset

 at TENBUG PROMPT (TENBUG 2.2>) type BO 2,0,0,VMES10.VERSADOS.SY

FOR BOTH

eventually a "C0" will appear in the FP LED and then the screen keyboard window will display a request to login. The first login requires the system volume and a user number.

3. Enter 

BT01:0

and enter date and time as requested

4. Initialize the HD

=INIT #HD00;V

OK TO INIALIZE #HD00(Y/N)? Y

PHYSICAL SECTORS/TRACK ON MEDIA (8 BITS) 32 > C  

DO YOU WANT TO FORMAT THE DISK (Y.N)? N

ENTER NEW VOLUME NAME SYS

ENTER USER NUMBER 0

ENTER DESCRIPTION(MAX 20 CHARACTERS) VDOS 4.3 10/31/18

DO YOU HAVE LOCKOUT TABLE ENTRIES(Y/N)? N

  VALIDATING SECTORS   (this takes a while)

DO YOU WANT A DIAGNOSTIC TEST AREA (Y/N)? Y

NUMBER OF CYLINDERS ON MEDIA (16 BIT) 306 > 306   (that's for a 15mb HD)

DO YOU WANT THE BOOTSTRAP(Y/N)/ Y

(press CR in response to the remainder of the questions)

5. Copy all files from the first floppy to the HD


=COPY BT01:*.*.*.*,SYS:*.*.*.*;NC

6. You can rename the default Versados.sy file or leave it in VMES10 catalog. If renamed, the a blank command line will boot it, else the CMDline 0.VMES10.VERSADOS.SY will do.

=RENAME SYS:0.VMES10.VERSADOS.SY,SYS:0.&.VERSADOS.SY

7 do a Power On Reset and Reboot using HD00 as the boot drive 

8. login to new HD

   SYS:0
   date 
   time

9. Copy all the rest of the floppies to the HD

(remove disk from drive)

=DMT #FD02

(insert next disk) 

=MT #fd02

=COPY BT02:*.*.*.*,SYS:*.*.*.*;NC

( respond ALL )

( repeat above for each disk BT03: - BT11:)


NOTE -  there's a procedure for converting the Versados.sy on the boot disk to support a 40mb drive


to change drive to 5mb or 40mb, you must make the boot floppy writable and run this chain file after booting initially.

=CHAIN VMES10.XPATCH.CF 5MB

    or

=CHAIN VMES10.XPATCH.CF 40MB

then reboot.. the rebooted OS now supports only a 5 or 40 mb drive.


NOTE - never ask for alternate sector handling or to format the HD. The Create RAW disk image makes a perfect formatted disk with no need for error handling.


FOR VERSADOS 4.4 with either 5MB, 10MB, 15MB OR 40MB HD

Basically it is the same as above but a little different when you INIT the HD

4.4 requires that the boot floppy be writable. You must convert the compressed IMD file to an IMD file with all the sectors expanded. 

the emulator has a feature to decompress IMD files. A menu item on the NEW DISK window can be used to open a compressed file, then a NEW file (or old). The new file is read, and compressed sectors are expanded and written to the output file. 

OR, in DOS, you can use the DOS program IMDU to decompress IMD files. 

>IMDU BT01.IMD BT01E.IMD /E

this creates a new un-compressed disk called BT01E.IMD... use it

(IMDU by Dave Dunfield is availible at dunfield.com)


follow the same instructions for 4.3 but when you get to

NUMBER OF CYLINDERS ON MEDIA (16 BIT) 306 > 306   

you can enter 306 for 5mb,10mb,15mb or 830 for 40mb.

SPT = 32


FOR VERSADOS 4.5 with either 5MB, 10MB, 15MB OR 40MB HD

same as above, for 4.4, but there's a chain file to load the disks... you can do it individually as above or use the chain file.

also the vme10 initial boot disk is BT06: not BT01:


After the installing

you may want to edit the files 0.PRIV.BULLETIN.NW, O.PRIV.UPSYSTGEM.CF, AND 0.PRIV.USER.CF to remove most of teh stufrf that they spew onto the screen.


WARNING -  THE VME10 EMULATOR'S SCREEN IS VERY SLOW COMPARED TO A REAL ONE... BE PATIENT

typically yo can do most stuff with the TTY or CRT emulator's connected to the MVME400 card.

the CRT and TTY emulators also support the BREAK key... you can use the Pause/Break key or use Cntrl-C to get the system's attention.


SOME more NOTES - 

the IPL.SY program for 4.3 requires uppercase, and does not print messages as it boots. so, there is no indication that it failed. 

the IPL.SY for 4.4 and 4.5 print user friendly messages on the MVME400.

IPL.SY, CPMLDR and unix loader does NOT display on the front panel.