hi,
> We could make one floppy with just the kernel on it and another one which
> boots, copies everything to RAM: and... you get the idea.
yes, that may have to be the way
disk1:bootstrap -k disk2:vmlinux.gztype-stuff
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hi,
> BTW if we could use bzip2, we'd be all set already:
this is a weakness of 'bootstrap', yes?
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hi,
> You mean our test ramdisk.image.gz ? I asked eons ago if we should convert it
> to ext2, if it's still Minix we should do that now. We could use it as a
> rescue or other fancy stuff with a current glibc etc.
yep, dropping minix will cleave a small lump off the kernel.
> I already cons
hi,
> I don't think this is feasible as some people won't have anything connected
> to their AGA output. Right now all the Amiga framebuffer devices are in.
agreed - a lot of people either dont have a monitor that can 'do' the AGA
modes (even the 29.xHz VGA thing) , others dont have scan-double
hi,
> Yep, you can remove OCS/ECS support, but it'll save only a few bytes, I guess.
dont A3k PowerUP owners have to have ECS - if they dont have GFX card?
(are there any such people?)
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hi,
> > Do we need Minix fs support yet?
>
> Not for installation.
the ramdisk image no longer uses MiniFS? if so minifs could be dropped
ages ago.
I guess we also dont need OCS gfx support...as PowerPC cards only work on
ECS and AGA systems.
On this line of thought...sound isnt essential, n
hi,
> Well, we could split the kernel in 2 and join it in ram: before launching it.
> Or we could try for a less than 880Ko modular kernel, but i have not big hopes
> on this one. Michel Daenzer is the apus kernel package maintainer for debian.
a small, but brief note:
IS there not a very very
hi,
> mmm, they are not really difficult to do, i remember writting my own split
> programs, because non where availabel back then.
/me thinks there are several free clones of join/split on aminet
> (altough not test them). The only real problem is the choice program, but if
> you only want t
hi,
> But the bootblock is code. Of course we can reverse engineer and clean room
> reimplement one (IIRC it justs opens dos.library and returns 1 or 0).
over 10,000 coders have made their own bootblocks for Amiga
floppies...either commercial games or demo disks.
some even got sine-scrolling m
hi,
> > no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt
> > put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a bootblock
> > (a few hundred bytes) to the floppy. Theres no reason why we couldnt have
> > an AmigaOS bootblock and write it to disk with 'dd'
>
> but you do get
hi,
> And did you have the same amount of stuff in it ?
these are the standard downloadables from APUS@sourceforge
they have pretty much the same functionality. I guess
there are many features that can be cut out of 2.4.4
(but most stuff, such as khttpd are as modules already)
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hi,
> Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable?
no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'install df0:' but this doesnt
put any files onto the disk as such, it just writes a bootblock
(a few hundred bytes) to the floppy. Theres no reason why we couldnt have
an AmigaOS bootblock a
hi,
> What is the size of the 2.4.x kernel compared to the 2.2.10 one ?
bigger, I recall 2.4.4 being over 3Mb (compared to 2.2.10 being just over
2.1Mb)
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hi,
> My 2.4.4 zImage is only 458036 bytes long. I have lots of modules, but it could
> work. I remember I once did.
custom images targetted for each APUS environment might be squeezed in.
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hi,
> Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ?
yes. its treated just as the old classic external floppies that I'm sure
most people had with their A500's
> but 1.76MB floppies would be easily supported, almost nothing needs to be
> changed, apart from the rescue disk creation. Does someon
hi,
> >#if cpu(sparc) || #cpu(powerpc)
> >const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "ext2", NULL };
> >#else
> >const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "msdos", "ext2", NULL };
> >#endif
> > as you can understand is impossible for a powerpc machine
> > to load a msdos partition, so i have modified
hi,
> Bug 3: fd0 device problems
>
> For APUS /dev/fd0 is unable to load the rescue floppy disk.
> I think it defaults to the Amiga floppy formats.
> I must erase it and recreate it with 'mknod fd0 b 2 28'
> that is the same of /dev/fd0u1440 in a "standard" installation.
>
> After this change
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