16 Jan
2021
16 Jan
'21
2:50 p.m.
Nice! If you'd like to be the greatest hero today, can you send me an
image of an RD52 or RD53 of the latest P/OS and I'll load it on one of
my drives here? (Save me 30 floppies, please :-)
Did the images from Xhomer work?
C
On 1/16/2021 5:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
I just tried what you suggested (with P/OS 3.0) on an
MFM emulator empty RD52 image, and indeed that works just fine.
Thanks Chris!
paul
On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Chris Zach via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hm. I remember that POS 2.0 and above would just format the hard disk and go during the
install. Likewise I don't know if you can have multiple hard disks in P/OS so
that's a pain in the tail.
Boot from floppies and just init the raw disk.
C
On 1/14/2021 11:39 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> I'm wondering how to do hard drive formatting, which is likely to be needed when
working with emulated disks in David Gesswein's MFM emulator.
> As far as I can tell, RT-11 can do this. At least I have a source code printout for
such a formatter. But while I can find a hard drive image of RT V5 for Pro, I haven't
found any floppy-bootable images. And I think it's a bit tricky to create one. I
knew, long ago for V2...
> Any suggestions? Any alternative sources for a formatter? I guess I really should
consider typing in the core of that formatter and adding it to RSTS.
> paul