OK, as long as I don't run into any unforseen trouble that keeps me from
having time, I plan on installing RT-11 on a large disk in the next few
days. However, I won't be using the nice WQESD ESDI controller that I've
got that makes partitioning disks easy. So I want to make sure I
understand how partitioning works under RT-11.
If I'm reading the manuals correctly I would first boot off of my RL02 pack
and do the following
.INIT/BADBLOCKS DU0:
then
.SQUEEZE/OUTPUT=DU0: DL1:
.COPY/BOOT DL1:RT11FB.SYS DU0:
and then boot the system from DU0: So far that's pretty straight forward,
and except for using SQUEEZE to copy the distribution, pretty much the way
I got it from RX50 to RL02.
Now then since I'll want to use more than just the first 30Mb of the Hard
Drive, I'll need to set up partitions. Do I do this prior to initializing
DU0: or after booting from a freshly installed DU0:?
I realize the command to do the partitioning is:
.SET DU0 UNIT=0,PORT=0,PART=0
.SET DU1 UNIT=0,PORT=0,PART=1
.SET DU2 UNIT=0,PORT=0,PART=2
.SET DU3 UNIT=0,PORT=0,PART=3
Also I assume that a partition has to be 65,535 blocks, but does the last
one have to be that, or will it simply be however much space is left?
Zane
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Received on Wed Aug 04 1999 - 21:59:09 BST