[Info-vax] how to extract and install content from vms073lp.zip

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-03-31, Qunying <zhu.qunying at gmail.com> wrote:
> The [...] thing, it helps me! I did not know it.
> backup VMS073LP.BCK /save dua2:[lp...]
> But then I got this error:
> %BACKUP-E-OPENOUT, error opening  
> DUA2:[LP.PATHWORKS_60D.KIT]PWRKV60D060.C;1 as output
> -RMS-F-FUL, device full (insufficient space for allocation)
> %BACKUP-E-OPENOUT, error opening  
> DUA2:[LP.PATHWORKS_60D.KIT]PWRKV60D060.D;1 as output
> -RMS-F-FUL, device full (insufficient space for allocation)
> %BACKUP-E-OPENOUT, error opening  
> DUA2:[LP.PATHWORKS_60D.KIT]PWRKV60D060.E;1 as output
> -RMS-F-FUL, device full (insufficient space for allocation)
>
> It looks strange to me as my host system has quite a lots of space:
> I am running it under Slackware64 13.37, my home directory is in the same  
> partition as root so I still have 100G of space.
>
>   Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/root      169372672 43240576 117652592  27% /	/
>

This doesn't matter. It's the size of the emulated disk which does matter
and those sizes are fixed.

Do a

	show dev dua2: /full

and look at the number of free blocks. The value should be pretty close
to zero.

>
> ; Define disk drive types. RA92 is largest-supported VAX drive
> set rq0 ra92
> set rq1 ra92
> set rq2 ra92
> set rq3 cdrom
>
> ; Attach defined drives to local files
> attach rq0 /home/qunying/vms/data/d0.dsk
> attach rq1 /home/qunying/vms/data/d1.dsk
> attach rq2 /home/qunying/vms/data/d2.dsk
>

The only part of your host filesystem which is used is the part used to
store these files and unless SimH has acquired some form of dynamic
disk resizing (it's been a few years since I last used SimH so I am just
covering all possibilities :-)), the size must be consistant with the
emulated device.

Simon.

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