Mounting partitioned disk

Marc T. Kaufman kaufman at polya.Stanford.EDU
Tue Jun 27 11:03:01 AEST 1989


In article <18531 at louie.udel.EDU> nelson at udel.EDU (Mark Nelson) writes:

>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.

Try running 'dp' and checking the partition info for the Use partition.  Last
I looked, HD Setup missed some of the A/UX fields.  Next, you need to use
'pname' to associate a partition on other than the boot device with a
particular slice.  On the boot device, slice 0 is the root partition, and
slice 2 is the usr partition, if there is one.  Non boot devices are not
automatically searched.

	pname -a -c0 -s0 "Usr" (use the actual name you gave it)
	mkfs /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0  (and fsck, etc.)
	mount /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /mnt

ought to work.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman at polya.stanford.edu)



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