Subject: Re: Some Q's (fwd)
To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@worldonline.dk>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 11/20/1999 10:55:08
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 10:26:01AM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> 
> Hi, got some newbie Qs
> 
> 1) How do I gain WRITE acces to AmigaDOS partitions? Every time I try (eg.
> 'mount -t ados -w /dev/sd0f /mnt/dwl' or 'mount_ados -m 755 /dev/sd0f
> /mnt/dwl'I get a:
> 
> mount_ados:mount: Read Only file system4

Yes. Our AmigaOS file system code is read-only. If you want to change this,
add the write portion. Start by writing a fsck_ados.

> 2) Someone asked me to do a
> 
> X :7 -bpp 16 -probeonly >& x.log
> 
> But that seems to be a linux/XFree command. Aside that the display# is :0
> is there anyway to 'convert' the above to something BSD can understand?

No.

No need to probe... Amiga graphics boards are all well-detected by the kernel,
and need no guessing by X11. Read INSTALL.X11 about how to set up X11.

> 3) Virtual consoles, how do I go about that? Can't seem to find any info on
> that.

There aren't any. We will get them when some volunteer rewrite the Amiga
graphics drivers to support wscons.

> 4) When ending a X-session returns to the console, but an 'unclean' one.
> The prompt pops up on the top in the middle of all the garble garble.

Uhm... I can't witness this on the Altais (== Retina Z3 for all practical
purposes). What graphics system do you use? What NetBSD version?

Regards,
	-is