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@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
