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 -- seal your e-mail: http://www.gnupg.org/
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#p6If someone can point me to further information, this RDB-tool might become reality sooner.
Any info appreciated... -Florian