Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!paul From: paul@unisoft.UUCP (n) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Disk partitions: autorecovery, aux-root, swap, etc. Keywords: dp(1), disk partitions, A/UX Message-ID: <1216@unisoft.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 88 02:08:33 GMT References: <8@rampart.tulane.edu> Reply-To: paul@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Lines: 50 In article <8@rampart.tulane.edu> barad@tulane.UUCP writes: >I have a Dataframe 150XP and I've set it up for A/UX. I did this >using dp and created only 1 partition: the A/UX root partition. > >I did not create any autorecovery, eschatology, Mac_HFS, or swap >partitions. I've heard from SuperMac that their current driver >does not support Mac_HFS partitions (please inform me if I'm wrong). >This doesn't bother me that much, but I don't have other >partitions like swap and the eschatology partitions. > I too have an XP150 and it works very well (it's faster, and bigger than a quantum 80 ...). What I did was the following (it should work for any CDC Wren IV based disk and also for many other similar disks), I dd'd the whole of the Apple distribution from a quantum (ie dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0d0s31 of=/dev/rdsk/c1d0s31 bs=500k) to my XP150, this copies EVERYTHING including all the partitions, the partition table, the HFS booting partition and the APPLE driver. I then used dp to extend the 2 sector 'Extra' partition at the end so that it takes up the whole of the rest of the disk (make sure you set the partition type correctly to 'SVR2 user'). Next I used pname to call the partition /dev/dsk/c1d0s2 and the used mkfs to put a filesystem on it. You can now reboot onto your new disk, after coming up single user mode use pname to create an /etc/ptab (so it always recognises the new partition) and then create a mount point and add an /etc/fstab entry so that the partition will be mounted when you go multi-user. Phew easy wasn't it :-) of course you only have to do it once. The SuperMac (MacOS only, A/UX has its own) driver on the original XP150 doesn't seem to support partitioning correctly, they tell me they will fix it asap ... this is a pity for two reasons 1) it is faster in its transfer rate than the Apple one (leaner and meaner) but if you only run A/UX this is not an issue and 2) it has special hooks in it which allow you to run all those free programs you got on the disk when you bought it they are 'copy protected' so that they will ONLY run off a disk that is running with the SM driver (after all they did come FREE with the disk). Older XP150s or XP150i (the internal disk) owners may need a ROM upgrade to run with A/UX, see SuperMac for details. Disclaimer: I have business dealings with SuperMac so I'm probably biased but the above information will hopefully help anyone trying to configure a 3rd party disk with A/UX Paul -- Paul Campbell, UniSoft Corp. 6121 Hollis, Emeryville, Ca E-mail: ..!{ucbvax,hoptoad}!unisoft!paul Nothing here represents the opinions of UniSoft or its employees (except me) "Nuclear war doesn't prove who's Right, just who's Left" (ABC news 10/13/87)