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Xref: sserve comp.unix.amiga:7724 comp.sys.amiga:34479 comp.unix.bsd:14721 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!demon!flevel.demon.co.uk!trefor Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.sys.amiga,comp.unix.bsd From: trefor@flevel.demon.co.uk (Trefor Southwell) Return-Path: <trefor@flevel.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: NetBSD HD Install Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 15:28:47 +0000 Message-ID: <9408261528.AA000yk@flevel.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 33 In article <33hju2INNs5f@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> c9020@rrzc1a (Hubert Feyrer) writes: > David Southwell (david@flevel.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > > Instead, use the boot-floppy to format (newfs) your partition and then > > > mount your AmigaOS-disks to extract the archives. > > > > This method would not work on our configuration. I agree it is > > fine if you can do it that way but it is not possible with > > some configurations. > > So, which configuration are you talking about? What kind of problems? > The only thing I can imagine where this doesn't work is if you don't > have a floppy drive. We downloaded our NetBSD software onto a 1024bps/Multiuser Filesystem 1.2GB MO disk. NetBSD will not read 1024bps Ados filing systems at present. In fact it won't read 1024bps full stop. Michael Hitch is working on this one at the moment. Anyway, we could not transfer it using the Ados filing system, our hard drive was way to small in anycase. I don't think transfering nearly 20MB of NetBSD stuff onto floppys was viable. So as we explained we used a temp 10MB partition on an MO disk formatted under Bffs on AmigaDos to transfer the data to the NetBSD side. We need this partition anyway because the Ados filing system on NetBSD has no write code and so its the only way of getting data back to the ADOS side. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Email trefor@flevel.demon.co.uk ! ! Fourth Level Developments Optical Magneto Drive Systems ! ! Multi-Media System Developers for Amiga, PC & Apple ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+