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QUniLator Installer is a utility published by QUniBone that prepares bootable SD cards for QUniLator, the system that drives a real UNIBUS or QBUS backplane from a BeagleBone Black, allowing a PDP-11 to boot from emulated disks and tapes. The software falls into the category of disk imaging and deployment tools, and its purpose is to take a QUniLator release image and transfer it onto an SD card so that the card is ready for use in the target hardware. Its workflow covers the entire preparation process: it fetches the selected release, writes the image to the card, and then reads back the written data to verify that the transfer completed correctly. Beyond simple imaging, the installer can pre-configure the card before it has ever booted, settling the operator identity, host name, SSH keys, and network address directly on the card, which means the resulting system can come up with its intended configuration already in place rather than requiring manual setup after first boot. Because writing a raw disk image requires elevated privileges, the application asks for administrator rights as it starts, ensuring that the low-level write operations to the SD card can proceed without failing partway through. The tool is aimed at operators and enthusiasts working with vintage DEC hardware who want a straightforward, repeatable way to deploy the QUniLator environment onto removable media. QUniLator Installer is currently at version 0.5.0, which is the only version listed in the catalog, indicating a single available release of the installer at this time. By combining image acquisition, verified writing, and pre-boot configuration in one step, it reduces the manual effort otherwise needed to bring a QUniLator-equipped BeagleBone Black into operation with a physical PDP-11 backplane.
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