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 <jst...@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@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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