/4.3BSD-Quasijarus

4.3BSD Quasijarus, installed on a disk(file) ready to be used with simh's vax emulator. Also evereything you need to install it yourself

4.3BSD Quasijarus

Why?

I already did Research Unix Verion 7, so why not this too?

This is the result of following the tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/quasijarus.html page.

Everything is ready. I did it so you dont have to. I have installed 4.3BSD Quasijarus and NOTHIG else. So you have a pure system.

From here you can do what you want. I would suggest to copy/backup the file quasdisk.dsk, if you mess things up, you can easily revert.

What else you need: Nothing really (if you're using a 64bit linux distro), i even included the vax emulator. But you should be using your Distros simh package, which should be having the latest version.

Contents:

  • File vax: Its from official simh repo, version 3.8.-1. Use this if your distro doesnt have the simh package, or if it wont work with this project. This is a x86_64 binary. SimH Github Repo.
  • File quasdisk.dsk is the "disk" of the system. Thats where the system is installed. make a copy of it for backup.
  • Files boot.ini init.ini vax_better.ini vax.ini are configs for the SimH emulator.
  • Directory src: Every file mentioned in tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/quasijarus.html page. So you have everything you need if you want to do it yourself.
  • Directory docs/:
    • File quasijarus.html: The main documentation. If you want to do it yourself, this is all you need.
    • File Installing_4.3_BSD_Quasijarus_on_SIMH.html is in readable form of gunkies.org/Installing 4.3 BSD Quasijarus on SIMH - Computer History Wiki.html, which is a recommended read.

How to:

FIRST: Uncompress the disk image quasdisk.dsk.xz. I had to compress the disk image. Github limit it 100Mb.

unxz quasdisk.dsk.xz

Read the quasijarus.html stage 4. But Here is a very short tutorial, to just start it:

type ./vax vax.ini and it will start

wait to prompt, then type b

wait for login prompt, then type root

if root has a password, its root.