Re: [ARMini-support] Experience so far with 5.19 (6 Jul 13)
- From: Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 11:47:07 GMT
On 9 Nov 2013 Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8 Nov, Peter Young wrote in message
> <233578a753.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Thanks for the reassurance! I will bite the bullet perhaps next week. Does
>> one need to transfer all the stuff from the existing USB "drive" to the
>> card, or is !Boot the only thing on the card? If so, how does one get both
>> "drives" showing?
> Having never seen one of R-Comp's cards, I assume they're one of the "dual
> format" SD cards that originated on the Pi and are now common on Beagle and
> Pandaboards as well. That is, the card is formatted for RISC OS Filecore,
> but has a FAT partition cleverly placed over the top which the bootloader
> can see. On the Filecore side, there's a file placed in the disc map to
> coincide exactly with the FAT partition, to prevent it being overwritten by
> RISC OS. It's given the type "DOSDisc" so that double-clicking on it opens
> the FAT partition in DOSFS. Evil, but effective.
> If that's correct, then you'll find that after installing one, clicking on
> the SD card icon on your iconbar will open an SDFS disc containing !Boot et
> al, instead of the bootloader's files as it did before. You'll need
> configure the machine to boot from SDFS, instead of SCSI (which I'm sure
> R-Comp will explain in the upgrade notes).
> You can put all of your data on to the SDFS card, or carry on using any
> SCSI-attached USB devices for data storage -- it's up to you.
>> To save the manual updating of the new !Boot, couldn't one use something
>> like SyncDiscs, or would that be a recipe for chaos?
> That doesn't sound too clever... Apart from anything else, depending on what
> you do with your old apps, you might be needing to change SCSI: to SDFS: in
> some filenames.
Many thanks for more reassurance. I shall phone Andrew next week and
order the card.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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