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From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn)
Subject: [TUHS] Adding an RP06 disk to a running V7 instance
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 17:28:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5663730B.7050103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449357157.9737.80.camel@papa2>

On 12/5/15 5:12 PM, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
> On Sa, 2015-12-05 at 16:33 -0600, Will Senn wrote:
>> The second was to use tm(0,3) (is this mkfs or something like it?)
> If you run 'strings f2', you get:
>
> File 1:
>          2 copies of magtape bootstrap (2 blocks total)
>          The standalone bootstrap
> ...
> The numbering starts at 0 of course, so that tm(0,3)
> is indeed a standalone mkfs.
>
>
This may be obvious to you, but to me it's flat out amazing. Thanks for 
giving me your insight. I never would have thought to use strings on the 
tape segments, but it is so incredibly helpful.

Regards,

Will



      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-05 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-05 20:11 Will Senn
2015-12-05 20:17 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-12-05 22:33   ` Will Senn
2015-12-05 22:48     ` Lawrence Stewart
2015-12-05 23:04       ` Will Senn
2015-12-05 23:12     ` Hellwig Geisse
2015-12-05 23:28       ` Will Senn [this message]

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