On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:45:42PM +0000, Peter Bell wrote:
> > > > > HForm says the disc is 16383/16/63 C/H/S, but with LBA revises this to
> > > > > 29795/16/63. I formatted the RISC OS partition as 13315 cylinders.
> > > > > Unfortunately bb_netbsd thinks I've got -3328 cylinders running from 0
> > > > > to -3329... argh... I haven't let it proceed to mash my disc...
> > > > When I run bb_netbsd, I get 0--3977 cylinders.  Since I haven't got
> > > > anything on the drive I didn't care so just went ahead.  bb_netbsd
> > > > completes *very* quickly.

True ... if you look at the code you can see that it only needs to update 
one sector... so indeed completing very quickly :)

> > Hmmmm ... negative numbers ... i've tried it out lately on my 10Gb harddisc
> > (RiscOS 3.5+hack) and it reported OK AFAIK.... i will take a look but i
> > guess its just a printing fault ...

It is ... the displaying of the RISC OS part can overflow i see... that
doens't matter for the input of the program though its confusing i agree.

> > To get away of these confusions : bb_netbsd == bb_riscbsd...
> 
> As you suggest, bb_netbsd appears to be the same as bb_riscbsd.  So,
> how do I get around the 'Bad disklabel' error from !BtNetBSD - which
> comes from MountUFS, I think.  I found some reference to a program
> trash_bb, or something like that - is that what I need?

AFAIK that program `trash_bb' is only needed when you are using a clean
disc that doesn't have a RISC OS partition on it ... it must have gone lost
or might no longer be nessisary.... that program was written before my time
even :)

> This is all so much gobblydigook, until I achieve a disc (or
> partition) which looks like a unix device.

Sorry to confuse you ... if you want an easy install go for NetBSD/arm32 
and install for a RISC PC. The NetBSD/acorn32 port is a split off of the 
origional NetBSD/arm32 as found in the 1.5 release branch :)

> > Welcome to the Acorn32 port !
> 
> Maybe I should try Linux instead. ;)

Hope i didn't scare you away ! ;)

Cheers,
Reinoud