Subject: Re: Writable Amiga dos file system
To: Georges Heinesch <ghmlist@ibm.net>
From: Patryk =?iso-8859-2?Q?=A3ogiewa?= <silverdr@inet.com.pl>
List: port-amiga
Date: 05/03/1998 01:32:07
Napisane 02-Maj-98 przez: Georges Heinesch...
>In a message of 29-Apr-98 09:24:12, Markus Illenseer wrote:

>>> I am using NetBSD on my A1200 for my course, and I need to be able
>>> to transfer files from my NetBSD partitions to my Amiga Dos
>>> partition. Is this possible? As, as per the installation
>>> instructions, the Amiga Dos partition is mounted read-only.

>> Yes, this is true, but you can do it the other way round: Mounting
>> BSD-Partitions
>> under AmigaDOS. For this you need the bffs-Filesystem.

>>  ftp://ftp.uni-regensburg.de/pub/NetBSD-Amiga/tools/bffs-1.31b.lha
>> (You can also download the 1.5 beta if you want)

>1.5beta is from august 22nd 1996.
>Are there any known problems with this one (since it is still beta)?

It makes writing to netbsd partitions possible but I experienced some
problems after using it this way. The safest method AFAIK is still to
READ ONLY NetBSD partitions from AmigaOS side and READ ONLY AmigaOS
partitions from NetBSD's side.

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