[HECnet] Raspberry Pi + SIMH VAX?

Paul_Koning at Dell.com Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Tue Jun 5 15:50:58 PDT 2012


On Jun 5, 2012, at 5:29 AM, Mark Benson wrote:

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I am looking at trying to mount an external hard drive or SSD to handle the disk images instead of the SD card. For some ^$%^$%   reason you can't mount a disk as a user in Linux (I might be missing something, admittedly) like you can in RSX and VMS (again, more demonstration that UNIX sucks ;)) so I have to futz about as root to do that.

You can set that to be allowed with the "user" option, see "man fstab".   It defaults to not allowed, which is the correct security answer.   (I would assume the same is true in DEC operating systems that have protection mechanisms... it certainly is in RSTS.)

	paul



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