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RK03 Unix v5 Disk

Boot

To boot the RK03 “Unix v5” disk, start a PDP-11/70 with an RK11 Disk Controller, select the “Unix v5” disk from the list of disks available for drive “RK0”, click Load, and wait for the message:

Mounted disk "Unix v5" in drive RK0

Then start the machine (click Run) and make sure the following prompt has been displayed:

PDP-11 MONITOR V1.0

BOOT>

At the prompt, type “BOOT RK0”. Then type “unix” at the “@” prompt, followed by “root” for the login:

@unix

<ESC>;<BEL>login: root
# ls -l
total 60
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin       944 Nov 26 18:13 bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin        80 Nov 26 18:13 dev
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin       240 Mar 21 12:07 etc
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin       224 Nov 26 18:13 lib
drwxr-xr-x  2 bin        32 Nov 26 18:13 mnt
drwxrwxrwx  2 bin        32 Nov 26 18:13 tmp
-rwxrwxrwx  1 bin     25802 Mar 21 12:07 unix
drwxr-xr-x 14 bin       224 Nov 26 18:13 usr
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