From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
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Subject: First Release of Virt Tape Software
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 14:44:29 +1100 (EST)
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All,
	Ok, the alpha-cut of the virtual tape drive for installing 7th
Edition UNIX onto PDP-11s is available at

	ftp://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/pub/PDP-11/Vtserver

It works for RK05s, but I'm getting a `panic: iinit' error for RL02s.
This indicates a bad kernel build for the RL02s, something I have to work on.
I cannot test the software for RP03/04/05/06 disks, but this should be
vanilla V7 and should work with no problems.

A couple of people emailed me and said that they would rather get 2.11BSD
(again on a PDP-11 with no tape drive). Steven, would you be prepared to
add support for the virtual tape drive into 2.11BSD? Only the boot/install
code would need to change.

Would anyone with RL02s & experience with V7 kernels help me fix the
RL02 problems?!!

Cheers all,

	Warren