Re: pushing netbsd-5 (Was: bootloader)

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, T. Makinen wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:04 PM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, David Ross wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe it's worth putting a note up in the news section here:
>>> http://www.netbsd.org/ports/atari/
>>
>>        Definitely

 	Tuomo, would you be willing to write a few words on what has
 	been fixed for the NetBSD/atari page? :)

>>        Would you say at this point the recommended way to install would
>>        be to copy the kernel & sets to a CD or HD and then boot/install
>>        from there?
>
> I guess it's most straightforward way of installation now. Only glitch when
> one is installing kernel & sets from Gemdos drive is that kernel filenames
> exceed Gemdos 8 + 3 limitation (maybe we should think about renaming them ?).


 	Does it just do a simple truncate?

 		netbsd-ATARITT.gz	-> netbsd-A.gz
 		netbsd-BOOT.gz		-> netbsd-B.gz
 		netbsd-BOOTX.gz		-> netbsd-B.gz (conflict!)
 		netbsd-FALCON.gz	-> netbsd-F.gz
 		netbsd-HADES.gz		-> netbsd-H.gz
 		netbsd-MILAN-ISAIDE.gz	-> netbsd-M.gz
 		netbsd-MILAN-PCIIDE.gz	-> netbsd-M.gz (conflict!)

 	All of the other ports call the kernels in binary/kernel
 	'netbsd-*.gz' so it would be nice to be consistent.
 	I suppose a cheap way to help it would be to rename them
 	so they truncate to unique names, say:

 		BOOTX 		-> XBOOT
 		MILAN-PCIIDE	-> MILAN
 		MILAN->ISAIDE	-> ISAIDE-MILAN

 	Not ideal, but a little better.

 	Hmm, does anyone actually have a Milan or Hades to test? :)

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