On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Tim Crawley wrote:

> 
> The problem I have though, is getting the boot loader onto my console media!

  If all else fails manual entry, is the way to go..

  There's a serial line boot procedure for PDP-11 described on, 
    
    http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Tools/Tapes/Vtserver/vtreadme.html 

    manually enter the 1st stage bootloader,
    then second stage bootloader knows about a "virtual tape" device on 
    the serial port.
 
    A VAX-11 version of the bootloader should be straight forward.. :)

  you will need to go to www.pdp11.org, find the pdp unix 
  preservation society (PUPS) site, get a (free) SCO ancient unix
  license, and finally!, get a password for the TUHS archive. 

  Long drive tomorrow, got to go and pick up some 11/44's with 
  scsi disk & (non-scsi)tape..
 
         .. I *know* there's an 11/7xx here somewhere!.. 
Cheers,
   Steve
     [Down under in NZ]