Sebastian Maus wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> > > Yes bb_riscbsd needs to report a positive value and then write
> > > this value into a spare slot in the filecore bootblock. I don't
> > > know if this is F+ compatible as I am still running with RISCOS
> > > 3.7. Has anyone got NetBSD installed on the same disk as a RISC
> > > OS4/F+ filecore format partition? bb_riscbsd is BASIC perhaps
> > > the maths just overflows for 2GB+ partitions so needs a little
> > > tweaking.

> > 	Ack.. another thing to try to get fixed for 1.5 :)

> Almost a year ago I installed NetBSD on the one and only hard disc
> in my RISC PC, which was E+ (commonly called F+) formatted. I also
> saw the negative numbers bb_riscbsd presented but I had enough
> courage to test it nonetheless as I had made backups before. It did
> its job and both partitions seem OK. So there's probably just a
> problem with displaying the values. On the other hand, the return
> values of some SWIs could have changed to cope with larger discs. By
> the way, it was a hard job figuring out how to install NetBSD 1.4 on
> an Acorn. Upgrading from 1.3 was much easier. I'm looking forward to
> the first release of 1.5.

I'd previous only dared to format my filecore partition to 2Gb having
heard bad things about NetBSD not being best pleased if it was larger.
This worked fine with E and E+ but last night I found myself short of
space so repartitioned my drive to an even 4Gb:4Gb split. I was then
left with Part_info giving me negative numbers but decided to trust my
knowledge of the number of cylinders when using BB_RiscBSD. I then
installed the shiny new CD without any troubles, except the odd
display glitches due to the non-vt100 thing.

I looked at the basic files for Part_info and bb_riscbsd and then
remembered any information about the recommended ways to go about
finding out disk size etc were on this machine not that one.
-- 
Andy Wingate <URL:http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~xyzzy/>
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