Subject: Re: Atari installation
To: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.demon.co.uk>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 02/15/2003 22:36:50
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:06:28PM +0000, Julian Coleman wrote:
> > The content of \atari\installation\misc\ is:
> > 
> >   boot.fs.gz
> >   hades_boot.fs.gz
> >   milan_isa_boot.fs.gz
> >   milan_pci_boot.fs.gz
> > 
> > So this is this the stuff that should be in /floppy ?  I was expecting
> > to find some sort of installer program. Am I missing something else ?
> 
> Yep.  These are the filesystem images (compressed to save space).  First
> uncompress them, then use `dd` or `rawwrite.ttp` to put them on floppy.
> Then, boot from that floppy.  The installer program is on the floppy.  I
> guess the installation document is not clear enough about this.  If you
> could suggest better wording, that would be great!

And there is a catch here... The tools to decompress and to write the floppy
should shave been in the /misc directory :-| The best advise here is
probably to use the gzip.ttp and  rawwrite.ttp.gz from the 1.5 release.
You cannot use loadbsd from 1.5!!

Leo.