Re: XENIX Question

On Sep 12, 3:47Êam, Natalia Portillo <clau..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> El 12/09/2011, a las 02:00, snhirsch escribi—:
>
> > Is anyone on the list familiar enough with Xenix to tell me how it
> > sets up a Profile volume? ÊI'm trying to copy a working Xenix system
> > (from a kind third-party) from a 5MB volume on my X/Profile to a
> > "real" 5MB unit. ÊThe simple approach did not work:
>
> > # cp /dev/pf0 /dev/pf2
>
> Tried dd if=/dev/pf0 of=/dev/pf2 ?

I didn't notice that Xenix had the 'dd' command - thanks for pointing that out. However, I think the real underlying issue is that the Xenix /dev/pf0 device does not represent the full physical device. There's almost certainly some space used by the boot blocks and I believe the swap partition is carved out prior to the root volume. I cannot find any explicit inititalization command that sets swap like a modern Unix, so I'm guessing the layout of the boot disk is "baked into" the Xenix kernel.

Anyone know of a Lisa tool that can do a "blind" block-by-block copy between ProFiles? I know that X/Profile can do this internally, but I am trying to target a real disk drive.

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