[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

[Bob Eager]

Ah. That may be a Quasijarus addition. You could try for 'bsdlabel'.

On Wed, 10 May 2017 12:15:20 -0700
Alan Perry <aperry at snowmoose.com> wrote:

> 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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