UniBone/QBone disk images distribution

[Joerg Hoppe]

Hi,

Some update in the handling of disk image files:

All disk images from github come now ".gz" compressed.

They are automatically uncompressed when mounted to a disk drive
and the uncompressed image file doesn't yet exist.

I did this because:

• GitHub has a file size limit of 50MB, so now much more images can be distributed over github. However, very large and filled disks (like the 1.5GB RA92 with tons of RSX11M+ tools) which are compressed > 50Mb, still have to be moved on a side channel.
• the update script github-sync.sh will never overwrite again your disk image.dsk file, as only the .gz is downloaded.
• you always have an image.dsk.gz with a fresh version of your disk. Just delete the uncompressed image.dsk, and it will be restored to the .gz version on next mount.

kind regards,

Joerg

[Joerg Hoppe]

Hi,

the system to update UniBones/QBones evolved further, should be final now.

• I removed all the DEC disk images and emulation scripts from https://github.com/j-hoppe/QUniBone .
  Only program sources and compile scripts remain there.
  GitHub has a file size limit of 50 MB, not enough for big compressed RA* disk images.
  Also these disk images never change, they don't need version tracking.
  The disk images etc. are now at http://files.retrocmp.com/qunibone/ were I have unlimited storage, and recursive download via wget is a one-liner.
• a new script "update-code.sh" updates program sources from GitHub  & compiles them. 
• a new script "update-files.sh" (better name?) updates the emulation scripts and disk images. 
• github-sync.sh is history. Execute it one last time to get the two "update-*sh", after that it will switch it self off.
  

So update of program code and update of DEC software are now independed of each other.

DEC disk images continue to be distributed as compressed ".gz" files, which are uncompressed on use.
You can roll back your spoiled disks by deleting the uncompressed image any time, it will be recreated from the fresh compressed one.

kind regards,

Joerg

[Michael Raab]

Great job! --

I now have a RA80 and RL02 image with RT11v5.7 available for the Unibone.  The image contain all RT11  monitors and the Distrib.Kit. image full y2k compatible and has driver configs for 4! DLx units. The standard images support only DL0 and DL1. - If anybody needs it contact me.