Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, T. Makinen wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:07 PM, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, T. Makinen wrote:
> >        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...
>
> I tried with your new sysinst.fs; now gemdos filesystem is mounted
> correctly and installer finds 8.3 truncated files :)

        Most excellent! Committed to current and pullup for
        netbsd-5 (which *might* make 5.0) about to be sent!


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