what about using another minor device? Is xp0d mapped elsewhere?
Since it's a BSD, won't it try by default to read a partition
table from the first few sectors of the disk?
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
Hi,
I'm having trouble understanding how to get my swap configured. Since
rl02s are so little, the MAKE file in /dev doesn't partition them into a,
b, c, etc. However, when MAKE makes the /dev/rl0 device, it uses only 8500
of its 10000 blocks, so what would presumably be intended as swap space
does exist. Swap is usually linked to the b partition, right? So how do I
create this b partition on an rl02? Or am I getting this horribly wrong?
thx
jake
Hi,
I'm running 2.9BSD on a pdp11/34 with an Emulex sc21 controller to some
Fuji160 disks. Booting with root on RL02 for now, but want to eventually
have the whole system on the Fujis and disconnect the rl02s.
While the previous owner of the disks appears to have suffered a
headcrash near cylinder 0, I'm having an impressive degree of success
writing to other parts of the disk.
However, when I try to mkfs, I can see the heads trying to write on the
headcrashed part of the disk. (Nice having those plexiglass covers!)
Is there a way to tell mkfs (or perhaps some other program) to not try to
write on the damaged cylinders?
thx
jake
So, I have a chance to buy a copy of a Version 5 manual, but it will be a
lot. I looked, and the Version 5 manual doesn't appear to be online. So while
normally at the price this is at, I would pass, it might be worth it for me
to buy it, and scan it to make it available.
But, I looked in the "FAQ on the Unix Archive and Unix on the PDP-11", and it
says:
5th Edition has its on-line manual pages missing. ... Fortunately, we do
have paper copies of all the research editions of UNIX from 1st to 7th
Edition, and these will be scanned in and OCR'd.
Several questions: First, when it says "we do have paper copies of all the
research editions of UNIX", I assume it means 'we do have paper copies of
_the manuals for_ all the research editions of UNIX', not 'we do have paper
copies of _the source code for_ all the research editions of UNIX'?
Second, if it is 'manuals', did the scan/OCR thing ever happen, or is it
likely to anytime in the moderate future (next couple of years)?
Third, would a scanned (which I guess we could OCR) version of this manual be
of much use (it would not, after all, be the NROFF source, although probably
a lot of the commands will be identical to the V6 ones, for which we do have
the NROFF)?
Advice, please? Thanks!
Noel
