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- On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Ian Molton wrote:
-
- > I then tried to work out how to 'initialise' it. I can either dedicate
- > (using SCSIDM) about 1/2 the disc to ADFS, and none to RISC ix, OR I can
- > dediate some to RISC OS /and RISC ix
- >
- > either way, I'm screwed because !Partman wont create anything on the first
- > of the two methods, and will only create RISC ix partitions using the
- > second method. What do I do?
-
- Installing on an 4MB a5k is a pain, I agree. You should format the SCSI
- HD with SCSIDM with both, RiscOS and RiscIX partitions. Linux reads the
- RiscIX partition table and can handle the Risc ix partition, I've tried
- it on my RiscPC where I had the same problem. The space the IX partition
- uses will be allocated under RiscOS, so you can't overwrite it.
-
- You will then have to format the RiscIX partition under Linux (with
- mke2fs, as usual) and thats all. The kernel will not report any Linux
- partitions, but don't mind that cause 'mount' doesn't bother.
- Maybe you have to change the bootloader to -bootkernel automatically, but
- RMK said that more partition table formats will be supported soon by
- !PartMan (and maybe !Linux).
-
- As I remember, you've got a RiscPC, too. Why don't you use that to
- install on the a5k???
- You can copy the whole directory structure (except /dev) to the scsi disc.
- Make a dir called 'dev' in the root dir of it, copy MAKEDEV there an run it
- there. The last you have to do is to change the link fpem.o to fpem-2.87.o.
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