Re: XENIX Question

From: Natalia Portillo <claunia_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:47:55 +0100

El 12/09/2011, a las 02:00, snhirsch escribido:

> 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

Tried dd if=/dev/pf0 of=/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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