Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

Ok, I will try tonight, thanks!

>  As an general aside for speeding up testing installs, you
>  should be able to install just using the kernel and
>  sysinst.fs.gz, telling it to download all the sets from
>  http://mono.org/abs/atari-gemdos2/ or similar, though thats
>  obviously not relevant in this case...
Yup, I already do this for all my other installs.  Nice to have a Riebl 
ethernet card.  =)

>  Final question: Does prepare.fs.gz *do* anything that
>  sysinst.fs.gz doesn't anymore? Disk partitioning / labelling
>  / anything?
I booted it up once just to see what it did.  It looked potentially useful 
for disk partitioning, maybe for some AHDI related scenarios (dual boot) or 
something like that.  But sysinst does everything I need.  IMO, it's 
definitely worth considering removing it at this point if nobody sees a need 
to keep it around.

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brownlee" <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: <dross%pobox.com@localhost>; <f.g.lukas%web.de@localhost>; 
<port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem


> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, T. Makinen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:19 PM, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> 
> > wrote:
> > >        I've built a test netbsd-5 atari distribution with a patch to
> > >        allow installing sets from an unmounted gemdos filesystem (just
> > >        enter 'gemdos' as the filesystem type).
> > >
> > >        Is anyone able to test this - if I get a positive report soon
> > >        enough we may be able to get this into netbsd-5! :)
> > >
> > >        http://mono.org/abs/atari-gemdos/
> >
> > I just tried with your FALCON kernel and sysinst.fs.gz (hmm, did I miss
> > something?), but after installer tries to execute
> > "/sbin/mount -rt gemdos /dev/wd0f /mnt2" it throws following error 
> > message:
> > mount: mount_gemdos not found for /mnt2
> >
> > Another nice thing for installer would be check that if it can't find 
> > e.g.
> > netbsd-FALCON.gz kernel it could try netbsd-f.gz (gemdos 8 + 3). :)
>
>  http://mono.org/abs/atari-gemdos2/ contain an updated
>  version which should correctly mount gemdos filesystems
>  *and* look for 8.3 truncated files if it cannot find a full
>  filename (we really need to rename at least one of the
>  MILAN kernels)
>
>  If you have already downloaded the sets then you can just
>  grab sysinst.fs.gz, though everything has been rebuilt and
>  picked up a bunch of post netbsd-5.0_RC1 fixes :)
>
>  As an general aside for speeding up testing installs, you
>  should be able to install just using the kernel and
>  sysinst.fs.gz, telling it to download all the sets from
>  http://mono.org/abs/atari-gemdos2/ or similar, though thats
>  obviously not relevant in this case...
>
>  Final question: Does prepare.fs.gz *do* anything that
>  sysinst.fs.gz doesn't anymore? Disk partitioning / labelling
>  / anything?
>
> --
>  David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --