Subject: Re: New try to install NetBSD on my TT
To: None <port-atari@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Benjamin Lorenz <benni@phil.uni-sb.de>
List: port-atari
Date: 05/14/1997 15:22:01
Huhu,
> How can you get information into the machine via TOS? Kermit?
Well, with Linux and PPP or MO medium (Linux knows about SMD disklabels
and ufs filesystem...)
>> - Is it possible to read sun labeled MO disks under NetBSD/Atari?
>> This would be _very_ fine, because then I could untar all the
>> install archives under SunOS (4.1.3_U1) onto a 230MD MO medium and
>> boot from it under NetBSD.
>>
> 'probably' - but if not you should be able to tar the archives
> onto the disk as if it were a tape, then untar at the other
> end (Assuming you have at least some level of NetBSD on the TT
> by that point)
Problem is Linux handles ufs filesystems readonly, so I cannot
untar under Linux. And I cannot do it under NetBSD because I dont know
how to laod the ramdisk (rd0 always accesses the first floppy drive?!)
> Its probably on the boot-12.fs floppy. If you have access to
> a PC (or root on a sun) you should be able to rawrite the
> floppy image to a floppy then mount it as a DOS disk and copy
> the binaries off).
Thanks, that worked ok.
I will give the sun labeled MOD a try this night -- we will see...
Benni
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