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 <[email protected]> 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?

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