On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> 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
>> installation disks for Amiga OS -> so if I install NetBSD, there won't be
>> any hdtoolbox anymore.
>
> The wise move would be to get a 2nd disk...
>
>> Is there any way to bootstrap an entirely empty (new) disk for
>> NetBSD/amiga WITHOUT Amiga OS? Is it ust the disk format / some tables
>> (corresponding to what is the MBR no i386) or what is it?
>
> Unfortunately, we don't have a program --- or disklabel routines --- to write
> the "RDB" format used for describing the partitions on Amiga disks
> from within NetBSD. (Yes, we should have.)
>
> Regards,
> 	-is
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Hi,

I think I'll write one - well, *IF* I can collect all information. For me, 
something that creates a binary file one can write to the HD (plugged into 
IDE on another machine) via "dd" would be enough - but perhaps this 
*COULD* make a move into sysinst someday (there's no sysinst-install for 
amiga yet afaik?).

Well, my problem is, I found information about the RDB structure, but it 
contins various checksums and I have no information about the algorithms 
used for the sums (well, not really googled much so far).

All I found so far is http://amiga.emugaming.com/adfaq.html#p6

If someone can point me to further information, this RDB-tool might become 
reality sooner.

Any info appreciated...
-Florian