[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

[Alan Perry]

It is one of the documents that I have been referencing and didn't see 
it ;). But I will look again.

On 5/10/17 11:03 AM, Bob Eager wrote:
> 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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