From: wkt@minnie.tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Making boot disks
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:37:35 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209302137.g8ULbZH12674@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020930214211.5d53a9a0.spyro@f2s.com> from Ian Molton at "Sep 30, 2002 09:42:11 pm"
In article by Ian Molton:
> Hi.
>
> Dunno if you can help me ont this...
>
> I have an unusual UNIX derived OS called RISCiX, but I cant install it
> because I have no bootdisks.
>
> I /do/ have scripts to make them, and the kernel + OS files, though.
>
> I think the filesystem was UFS.
>
> I can use my Linux box to create a filesystem, but I dont have a copy of
> the right utility (newfs?).
>
> Can you point me to source?
I'll pass this to the mailing list to see if others can help you.
I'd say that Linux is unlikely to construct the correct filesystem type.
There are severl UFS variants, and you'd need to know the exact layout
details to be sure that Linux (or something else) could create the
boot disks.
Warren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-30 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-30 23:39 [TUHS] Re: Making boot disks (fwd) Warren Toomey
[not found] ` <20020930214211.5d53a9a0.spyro@f2s.com>
2002-09-30 21:37 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2002-09-30 23:59 ` [TUHS] Re: Making boot disks Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2002-10-01 0:37 ` Ian Molton
[not found] ` <spyro@f2s.com>
2002-10-01 6:29 ` Pete Turnbull
2002-10-01 9:16 ` Ian Molton
2002-10-02 7:20 ` Pete Turnbull
2002-10-01 8:01 Christian Groessler
2002-10-01 9:04 ` Ian Molton
2002-10-01 9:55 ` Jochen Kunz
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