[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

[Anders Magnusson]

You have mixed up something here.

There are no disklabels whatsoever in 4.3BSD, and nothing in newfs that 
cares about it.
If your newfs complains about disklabels, you are using newfs from 
something else, not 4.3BSD.

-- R

Den 2017-05-10 kl. 21:15, skrev Alan Perry:
> Your instructions say to use disklabel. However, there is no disklabel 
> in the default root execution path on the 4.3 BSD image that I am 
> running.
>
> 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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