This is useful when you read "The Unix Programming Environment". This is what they actually used.

This is the result of following the gunkies.org wiki.

Everything is ready. I did it so you dont have to. I have installed Research Unix Verion 7 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 rp06-0.disk, 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 pdp11 emulator. But you should be using your Distros simh package, which should be having the latest version.

• File pdp11: Its from archlinux repo, simh version 3.11.1-2. 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 rp06-0.disk is the "disk" of the system. Thats where the system is installed. make a copy of it for backup.
• Files nboot.ini and tapei.ini are configs for the SimH emulator.
• Directory www.tuhs.org/: i literally wget --no-parent -r https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Keith_Bostic_v7/. So you have everything you need if you want to do it yourself.
• Directory docs/:
  • File Installing_v7_on_SIMH__gunkies.org__.html is all you need to follow. Is a readable form, i link to the original, and original archive.
  • File research-unix-7-pdp11-45.pdf is recommended from the gunkies wiki page. If you want to customize/tailor the system, follow this pdf.

FIRST: Uncompress the disk image unxz rp06-0.disk.xz. I had to compress the disk image. Github limit it 100Mb.

Read the gunkies.org wiki official wiki-site or readable archive locally, section "Normal Boot", part "And let's boot up!". But Here is a very short tutorial, to just start it:

type ./pdp11 nboot.ini and it will start

wait to prompt, then type boot

wait to prompt, then type hp(0,0)unix

if root has a password, its root.