Re: Installation Assistance
Reinoud Zandijk <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.acorn32 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hiya all, On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:06:22PM +0100, Sebastian Maus wrote: > * Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote (20020321 21:16): > > In message <[email protected]> > > James Holtom <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > > > I used !HForm (2.52 01 Dec 1999) and allowed it to use longfilenames. > > > HForm says the disc is 16383/16/63 C/H/S, but with LBA revises this to > > > 29795/16/63. I formatted the RISC OS partition as 13315 cylinders. > > > Unfortunately bb_netbsd thinks I've got -3328 cylinders running from 0 > > > to -3329... argh... I haven't let it proceed to mash my disc... > > When I run bb_netbsd, I get 0--3977 cylinders. Since I haven't got > > anything on the drive I didn't care so just went ahead. bb_netbsd > > completes *very* quickly. Hmmmm ... negative numbers ... i've tried it out lately on my 10Gb harddisc (RiscOS 3.5+hack) and it reported OK AFAIK.... i will take a look but i guess its just a printing fault ... > It just worked here. RISC OS 4, long filenames, 4 GB IDE disc. Same > negative figures in bb_riscbsd. > I cannot guarantee it will work on your disc. And before I did that > experiment, I backed up everything on the RISC OS part of my disc. > > > > I note from the archives that there were issues with the bootloader, but > > > I haven't got that far yet, and didn't see anything about disc > > > partitioning :-( > > !BtNetBSD reports 'Bad disklabel' on my disc. > > You' ve not run bb_riscbsd ;-) To get away of these confusions : bb_netbsd == bb_riscbsd... One important advice for everyone trying to install Acorn32 : if you install ELF snapshots dont expect it to work in some time again ... the ELF api is work in progress and we're waiting for ARM for the definitive specs :( For a.out installs it should all just work fine :) ... please do take the _newest_ bootloader from the sourcetree ... (sys/arch/acorn32/stand/....). I'll add another copy to the ftp site later ... The latest version is version 0.99 Oh for X stuff: download the X sets of 1.5 and grab the expirimental wscons X server if you try out the wscons console ... Welcome to the Acorn32 port ! Cheers, Reinoud (port-master of NetBSD/acorn32)