1 Oct
2002
1 Oct
'02
3:16 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:29:56 GMT
pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) wrote:
was the only difference between 1 and 1.2 the kernel?
wont I need a working installation first?
Thats good to know - linux can actually write to that (although attempts
so far have led to kernel panics!)
Do you know of generic source for mkfs ?
I dont
actually know what the filesystem is, but my guess is UFS
based on the newfs command in the mkkernel script, and a rumour it
is BSD derived.
It is indeed a straight port of BSD 4.x, where x depends in whether is
it's RISC iX 1 or 1.2 (R440 used 4.2, I think; R260 used 4.3). I have
everything from a machines filesystem in a tarball.
I simply have no bootdisk, and cant create one without a suitable
newfs
> > any advice from the list would be appreciated :)
Take a look at James Carter's page at
http://www.jfc.org.uk/documents/riscix_clone.html is it possible
for someone else to make a filesystem image for me
that I could dd onto a floppy? I suspect that this system uses an
old variant of ufs.
It is a standard 4.3 filesystem (at least for the verison for an
R260). It even says so when it boots: One of us could copy some stuff for you. I'm not
sure you'd be able
to get what you need onto a single floppy, though. That's not how
Acorn did it.
did you see the scripts I attached?
Apparently the create 3 floppies, which can be used to install a system.
We'd certainly be willing to help, especially if
you have any RISC iX
stuff we're missing.
You're certainly welcome to any stuff I have.
Id be eternally grateful if you could run those 3 scripts on a riscix
machine though (even better if you could use a disc image - can risciX
do loopback mounted filesystems?)
once you have 3 floppies [which can be imaged], or 3 disc images, could
you email them to me?