On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:36:58PM +, Duncan Gibb wrote:
> On 15-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote:
>
> AB> certainly boot-programs (such as the APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan )
> AB> need MUI libraries, but the plain boothack/bootstrap for APUS just
> AB> needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM
>
> Even
On 15-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote:
AB> certainly boot-programs (such as the APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan )
AB> need MUI libraries, but the plain boothack/bootstrap for APUS just
AB> needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM
Evening, Dr Buxley. That MUI-GUI is aeons out of date now, and really wants
re
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
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:49:26PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > > > Don't you need some part of AmigaOS to make a floppy bootable?
> > >
> > > no, and yes. Under AmigaOS you run 'inst
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:44:26AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > >
> > > not that i can think of. certainly boot-programs (such as the
> > > APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) need MUI libraries, but the plain
> > > boothack/boo
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > not that i can think of. certainly boot-programs (such as the
> > > APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) need MUI libraries, but the plain
> > > boothack/bootstrap for APUS just needs p
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > > 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 wri
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> >
> > not that i can think of. certainly boot-programs (such as the
> > APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) need MUI libraries, but the plain
> > boothack/bootstrap for APUS just needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM
I don't use APUS, pla
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:15:14PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> 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) t
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
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 08:20:48AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:45:28PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > > Can you boot from an external 1.76MB floppy ?
> > >
> > > yes. its treated
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:45:28PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > 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 thei
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:36:19PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > > Also, is there a way (under linux) to detect if the floppy is of the 1.76
> > > or
> > > the 880 variety ?
> >
> > dont know - I always believe that floppies are too dumb..you only k
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> 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 noth
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > Also, is there a way (under linux) to detect if the floppy is of the 1.76 or
> > the 880 variety ?
>
> dont know - I always believe that floppies are too dumb..you only know
> what you can do when things you try fail ;-)
grep FD_HD_3 linux/drivers/block/
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
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:19:33AM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
> 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 impossi
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
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Giorgio Terzi wrote:
> Hello Sven,
>
> In first i wish to thank you for your help and for your last
> e-mail. :)))
>
> But let's speak about job.
>
> The second goal is reached!
>
> Now is possible to load & install Rescue & Driver images from
> flopp
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