On 2017-05-10 22:59, Alan Perry wrote:
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
Right. There is no partition table for DU RA 82. That does not imply
that it is looking for a disk label, but just indicates that the driver
to not have a table for this drive.
The tables are (as Ragge mentioned earlier) compiled statically into the
driver.
Johnny
/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 <ape...@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
<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.
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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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