Re: Digest for lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden - 4 Messages in 1 Topic

xenix install scripts are plain shell scripts. so you may analyze/modify them to do the job. But I experienced problems with xome xenix internal commands while emulating it.

2011/9/13 <lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden>

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> - XENIX Question <#1325fcb317b2d485_group_thread_0> [4 Updates]
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> Topic: XENIX Question<http://groups.google.com/group/lisalist/t/466a300b823214fd>
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> snhirsch <snhirsch_at_email.domain.hidden> Sep 11 06:00PM -0700 ^<#1325fcb317b2d485_digest_top>
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> Is anyone on the list familiar enough with Xenix to tell me how it
> sets up a Profile volume? I'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. The simple approach did not work:
>
> # cp /dev/pf0 /dev/pf2
>
> It chugged away quite a while and moved a lot of data. However, the
> target volume throws an error when I attempt to boot it. I'm guessing
> that "/dev/pf0" represents an internal partition and shares space with
> swap and boot blocks. I have been over all the manuals and cannot
> find any mention of procedures for setting up swap space and writing
> boot blocks. The information for this is probably buried in a shell
> script on the install/boot diskette, but something appears wrong with
> the image from bitsavers.
>
> Attempts to install from the boot diskette all complain that fd1 is
> write-protected. Interestingly enough, I get the same error when
> trying to mount the boot diskette from a running Xenix hard-disk
> image! As a WAG, I'm thinking that a working Xenix boot/install
> diskette is actually partitioned and is intended to have a tiny swap
> area on it? Really grasping at straws here. If someone has a working
> install/boot diskette I would love to get my hands on an image.
>
> Steve
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> snhirsch <snhirsch_at_email.domain.hidden> Sep 11 06:00PM -0700 ^<#1325fcb317b2d485_digest_top>
>
> Is anyone on the list familiar enough with Xenix to tell me how it
> sets up a Profile volume? I'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. The simple approach did not work:
>
> # cp /dev/pf0 /dev/pf2
>
> It chugged away quite a while and moved a lot of data. However, the
> target volume throws an error when I attempt to boot it. I'm guessing
> that "/dev/pf0" represents an internal partition and shares space with
> swap and boot blocks. I have been over all the manuals and cannot
> find any mention of procedures for setting up swap space and writing
> boot blocks. The information for this is probably buried in a shell
> script on the install/boot diskette, but something appears wrong with
> the image from bitsavers.
>
> Attempts to install from the boot diskette all complain that fd1 is
> write-protected. Interestingly enough, I get the same error when
> trying to mount the boot diskette from a running Xenix hard-disk
> image! As a WAG, I'm thinking that a working Xenix boot/install
> diskette is actually partitioned and is intended to have a tiny swap
> area on it? Really grasping at straws here. If someone has a working
> install/boot diskette I would love to get my hands on an image.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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> Natalia Portillo <claunia_at_email.domain.hidden> Sep 12 08:47AM +0100 ^<#1325fcb317b2d485_digest_top>
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> El 12/09/2011, a las 02:00, snhirsch escribido:
>
> > (from a kind third-party) from a 5MB volume on my X/Profile to a
> > "real" 5MB unit. The simple approach did not work:
>
> > # cp /dev/pf0 /dev/pf2
>
> Tried dd if=/dev/pf0 of=/dev/pf2 ?
>
>
>
>
>
> snhirsch <snhirsch_at_email.domain.hidden> Sep 12 08:44AM -0700 ^<#1325fcb317b2d485_digest_top>
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> > > "real" 5MB unit. The 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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