Subject: Re: Preparing for the amiga port
To: Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 12/31/2004 17:07:37
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Florian Stoehr wrote:

> But: On the HD in that machine, there is the "hdtoolbox", but I have NO=
=20
> installation disks for Amiga OS -> so if I install NetBSD, there won't be=
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> any hdtoolbox anymore.

The wise move would be to get a 2nd disk...=20
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> Is there any way to bootstrap an entirely empty (new) disk for=20
> NetBSD/amiga WITHOUT Amiga OS? Is it ust the disk format / some tables=20
> (corresponding to what is the MBR no i386) or what is it?

Unfortunately, we don't have a program --- or disklabel routines --- to wri=
te
the "RDB" format used for describing the partitions on Amiga disks
from within NetBSD. (Yes, we should have.)

Regards,
	-is
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