Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

Ok, just tried this.  I get:
http://i40.tinypic.com/j7awb8.jpg

So I think that /dev/sd1 is not what I want.  I tried sd1a, sd1c and I think 
rsd1c and got different error messages but no success.

(The sets are located on the SCSI disk with ID 1.  It's gemdos and they live 
in c:\gemdos\sets.  In the menu system I set the base dir to "gemdos" and 
the path to "/sets".)

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brownlee" <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: <dross%pobox.com@localhost>; <f.g.lukas%web.de@localhost>; 
<port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem


> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, T. Makinen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:19 PM, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> > wrote:
> > >        I've built a test netbsd-5 atari distribution with a patch to
> > >        allow installing sets from an unmounted gemdos filesystem (just
> > >        enter 'gemdos' as the filesystem type).
> > >
> > >        Is anyone able to test this - if I get a positive report soon
> > >        enough we may be able to get this into netbsd-5! :)
> > >
> > >        http://mono.org/abs/atari-gemdos/
> >
> > I just tried with your FALCON kernel and sysinst.fs.gz (hmm, did I miss
> > something?), but after installer tries to execute
> > "/sbin/mount -rt gemdos /dev/wd0f /mnt2" it throws following error 
> > message:
> > mount: mount_gemdos not found for /mnt2
> >
> > Another nice thing for installer would be check that if it can't find 
> > e.g.
> > netbsd-FALCON.gz kernel it could try netbsd-f.gz (gemdos 8 + 3). :)
>
>  http://mono.org/abs/atari-gemdos2/ contain an updated
>  version which should correctly mount gemdos filesystems
>  *and* look for 8.3 truncated files if it cannot find a full
>  filename (we really need to rename at least one of the
>  MILAN kernels)
>
>  If you have already downloaded the sets then you can just
>  grab sysinst.fs.gz, though everything has been rebuilt and
>  picked up a bunch of post netbsd-5.0_RC1 fixes :)
>
>  As an general aside for speeding up testing installs, you
>  should be able to install just using the kernel and
>  sysinst.fs.gz, telling it to download all the sets from
>  http://mono.org/abs/atari-gemdos2/ or similar, though thats
>  obviously not relevant in this case...
>
>  Final question: Does prepare.fs.gz *do* anything that
>  sysinst.fs.gz doesn't anymore? Disk partitioning / labelling
>  / anything?
>
> --
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