Partitions in AUX

[Blaine Price]

In article <8901252249.AA06324 at explorer.dgp.toronto.edu> dgplab at dgp.toronto.edu (George Drettakis) writes:
>I have a MacII running AUX and a new 20 MB SCSI disk that has 4 partitions on it.
>I used dp (1M) to change the parition (DPM Index 3) type to Unix File System, 
>and apparently the whole disk is called /dev/dsk/c1d0s31. 
>What I cant understand is how the "slice" number relates to the DPM parition 
>index so that one can get mkfs to work and subsequently mount the file system. 
>Am I missing something essential ?

Missing something?  Do you have the installation guide?  If so, look 
on Page 70 (Ch. 8: Where to Go From Here, Section 6), where it says
"use the pname utility to associate these partitions with A/UX device nodes."  

In your case, do a pname -af -c1 -s3 "partitionName" and /dev/dsk/c1d0s3 
becomes associated with partition "partitionName" after which you can
run mkfs on /dev/dsk/c1d0s3 and then mount it.  What could be simpler? B-)
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