Re: XENIX Question

By error I posted on a new thread while trying to post here (needs an admin delete ?) ...

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

On 12 sep, 17:44, snhirsch <snhir..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 3:47 am, Natalia Portillo <clau..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
> > 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 ?
>
> 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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