[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD
Jason Stevens
jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com
Wed May 10 10:29:30 EDT 2017
If Im remembering right, straight 4.3 pre-dates the labels, it's a hard
coded partition types in the drivers at this point.
If you don't care, just use the 0c devices aka 'whole disk' ... or I recall
that working well enough.
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> From: Alan Perry
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:57 AM
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: [Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD
>
> What are the steps for adding storage to a SIMH vax (vax750, to be
> specific) running 4.3BSD? I created disk image files on the host OS of
> the proper size (for RA82s) and attached them through the .ini file.
> However, they don't have partition tables and this version of BSD
> doesn't seem to have a tool for creating them. So, how do I put
> partition tables on the ra82 disk images?
>
> Thanks,
>
> alan
>
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