[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

[Alan Perry]

There is definitely some confusion here. But note that Bob brought up 
disklabel, not me. I was pointing out that I could not follow the 
disklabel step in his instructions because there is no disklabel command 
in the root path on my 4.3 BSD (it says 4.3BSD in the motd and the login 
prompt).

I already indicated that "newfs /dev/ra1c ra82" is responding:
  Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82
  /dev/rra1c: cannot create

I get the same partition message at boot time:
  ra1 at uda0 slave 1
  Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82
  ra2 at uda0 slave 2
  Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82

I initially thought that this was a partition table in a disklabel, but 
it been explained to me that the layout is compiled into the kernel and 
there should be a matching entry in /etc/disktab. There wasn't one, so I 
created a disktab entry for ra82.

alan

On 5/10/17 1:38 PM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> 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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