Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!qmw-cs!liam From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: AUX on non Apple disk drive? (yes - and AUX2.0 is shipping...) Message-ID: <2478@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 6 Jul 90 19:27:23 GMT References: <11464@netcom.UUCP> <1990Jul4.170317.2217@cbnewsc.att.com> Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 35 In <1990Jul4.170317.2217@cbnewsc.att.com> schnable@cbnewsc.att.com (andrew.schnable) writes: >I was able to get AUX up and running, but, my large free AUX slice was >not mounted. I figured that I probably had to make a filesystem and >mount it myself. Here I ran into a problem - the instructions in >the AUX documentation lead me to believe that this slice should >be available under /dev/dsk/c6d0s3 (or something like that - >I am not sitting at the machine right now...) But, there were no >such nodes in the filesystem! To make a long story short, I had to >make the nodes by hand (using mknod), in both /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk. >I was then able run newfs to create the file system and mount to mount it. the pname utility will make the devices for you if they don't already exist. >Does anybody know what the c6d0s30 and c6d0c31 devices are for? >It looks like c6d0s31 is the entire disk.... Slice 31 is the enitre disk (and always has been). Slice 30 is the (assumed one and only) Apple_HFS partition which appears on your desktop under A/UX 2.0 - you don't seem to be able to have more than one such partition per disk. >And here's a big YUCK - Apple isn't providing honeydanber UUCP That's a YUCK? Honeydanber UUCP likes to talk to itself and has difficulty with any of the "real" implementations. Myself I'd vote for UKUUCP but I don't suppose you Americans have ever heard of it... -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-cs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: 071-975 5250 (Fax: 081-980 6533)