Mounting partitioned disk
Mark Nelson
nelson at udel.EDU
Tue Jun 27 07:47:17 AEST 1989
My neighbor's MacII CX with A/UX and two 80 meg drives just arrived.
Unfortunately, the documentation hasn't. What he wants to do is
configure the external drive entirely A/UX, and split the internal
into half MacOS, half A/UX. But I can't get A/UX to recognize
the partitioned internal drive. What I did:
Build a ~40 meg A/UX "Usr" partition on the internal drive using the
MacOS utility "Apple HD SC Setup".
Boot A/UX and verify the partitioning of the internal drive with
"dp /dev/rdsk/c0d0s31".
Try a mkfs of c0d0s0. No luck: it complained that any block count
I gave was larger than the physical size. Same for c0d0s1 and c0d0s2.
As a sanity check, I built a file system on the floppy drive c8d0s0,
using diskformat and mkfs, and then mounting it. Worked fine.
So, what am I leaving out for the hard drive? Do I need to do a
diskformat of the partition? I'm assuming the slice 0 (s0) is
the one I should specify, since this is the only A/UX partition
on the drive, and mount tells me that / is /dev/dsk/c5d0s0 (the
external drive). I used Apple HD SC Setup since that was what
the diskformat man page said to use.
Thanks for any help. I know I should wait for the manuals,
but the other parts of the system have been trickling in over
the space of three weeks, so who knows how long I would have to
wait!
Mark Nelson ...!rutgers!udel!nelson or nelson at udel.edu
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