Re: pushing netbsd-5 (Was: bootloader)

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:02 PM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? :)
>

Yes :) I'll write some information about current NetBSD/Atari situation later
this week.

-Tuomo

>>>       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.

Yes, they're truncated just like that, so we need some unique names.

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

They're quite rare, but who knows, maybe there are some users left
with them who are interested about NetBSD/Atari :)

-Tuomo