Re: dd miniroot.fs into CF card from non-amiga NetBSD box

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost (Rin Okuyama) writes:

>The question is what is the easiest way to transfer miniroot.fs to my
>machine. I wonder whether I can dd it directly into a CF card from non-
>amiga NetBSD boxes. Does anyone try this? How can I calculate the
>beginning of swap partition created by AmigaOS? Or, any other ideas?

If you created the partitioning from AmigaOS then you see the
"disk" geometry in HdToolbox and can calculate the start by
multiplying LowCyl * SecPerCyl = LowCyl * nHeads * nSectors.

The alternative is to use

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/mlelstv/rdbedit.tgz.

with a slightly cryptic user interface. It lets you

- create an AmigaOS partition table (RDB) starting on blkno 2.
- dump the table as a disktab that you can use with disklabel -w
  to write an additional NetBSD disklabel to blkno 1.

The result is a medium or image that is understood by AmigaOS, NetBSD/amiga
and other NetBSD archs. If you don't want to go through the experience
of miniroot.fs, you can also unpack the sets and complete a bootable image
in a few steps on your non-Amiga NetBSD box.

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