15 Jun
2006
15 Jun
'06
10:39 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Anyone know anything about these? I've got an image of a hard disk
containing Torch's System V.2 release, which I'm hoping to be able to
read under Linux (which supports sysv, but makes the point that sysv.2
only works on floppies)
OK, bit of progress:
the partition table has 32 entries, each 4 bytes long, apparently in little
endian format.
from the Torch Triple-X (an earlier machine than the
Quad-X I'm trying to get
running) manuals, there are four standard partitions -
boot-loader, root, swap
and /usr, in that order. I don't yet know if that holds true of the QX, though.
I think what I was looking at before (when I saw the garbled filenames) was
the boot-loader partition; so it's possible that's only semi-compliant with SVR2.
I've managed to locate the offset to the root partition in the disk image, so
I can mount that - and surprise!, Linux will read it just fine, despite what
the Linux sysv filesystem docs say.
I still can't find where /usr starts on the disk, though, so I'm not quite
there yet - obviously I'm missing something and not quite decoding the
partition table right yet.
Still, progress...
cheers
Jules