Subject: Re: MO disk usable both on NetBSD/Amiga and GNU-Linux/PC
To: Jerome Lovy <jlovy@multimania.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 05/24/1999 23:41:54
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 10:51:56PM +0200, Jerome Lovy wrote:
> Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (is@jocelyn.rhein.de):
> > On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 10:25:32PM +0200, Jerome Lovy wrote:
> > a) you need 128-, 230- or 540- MB disks. 
> > 640 MB disks have 2 K /sector, which is not correctly handled by NetBSD up to
> > 1.4.
> > 
> > b1) use the all-disk "partition" and tar.
> > 
> > b2) use the all-disk "partition" and Linux ext2fs. NetBSD can handle this, 
> >     if you compile "file-system ext2fs" into your kernel.
> I tried:
> 	mount_ext2fs -o ro /dev/sd2X /mnt
> with sd2X replaced by sd2a, sd2b, etc... and I keep getting:
> 	mount_ext2fs: /dev/sd2X on /mnt: Operation not supported by device

Hmmmm... do you have "filesystem ext2fs" in your kernel configuration?
for NetBSD/Amiga, /dev/sd2c should be right.

Regards,
	-is