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 me
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,
> 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 an
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 someone
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,
> so there is a README file at
> http://hadess.free.fr/files/xf4/README.XFree86-4.0.1
> and the files at:
> http://hadess.free.fr/files/xf4/
thanks.
> The big 22 megs tarball is XFree86 4.0.1 - plain. The small tarball named
> drivers-2731.tar.gz contains Ani Joshi updated drivers. The
hi,
> > > And for the XF4 binaries (not in .deb, but shouldn't mess up your config
> > > to much), are at http://hadess.net/files/xf4
> > Are they any different than those provided by Michel Danzer ? (You can find
> > a link to his repository from linux-apus.sourceforege.net page)
>
> His are ne
hi,
> The URL and filenames have changed a bit:
>
> http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/
>
> This is 4.0b .
the linux-apus link has to be changed then.
> Good news for the Permedia2 people: DGA support is here. It's not tested
> though...
oh, I'm SUR that will be tested quite
hi,
> btw will you all transfer all the files from Sunsite to Sourceforge
> or will they remain at Sunsite..?
I think *ALL* APUS related files should be copied to the sourceforge.
thats the sunsite stuff, geerts FB stuff, the XFree4.0a stuff etc
alan
hi,
> https://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5907
I only got in from http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5907
https:// didnt work.
> We will have a homepage up at http://linux-apus.sourceforge.net hopefully
> soon.
8-)
> There are two new mailing lists:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAI
hi,
> http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/XFree86/4.0/
if I am to update my current server, what files do I need to download,
should I just grab all of them?
PS Is the glx version now working i believe 3.9.18 didnt work?
alan
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