[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

[Bob Eager]

If you look through those instructions I posted a link to, you'll see
how to do a disklabel.

On Wed, 10 May 2017 07:41:01 -0700
Alan Perry <aperry at snowmoose.com> wrote:

> I have tried to run newfs on partition c and it fails, complaining
> about the lack of a partition table.
> 
> > On May 10, 2017, at 07:29, Jason Stevens
> > <jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> >   
> >> ----------
> >> 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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