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How to put A2osX in a 4MB (8192 blocks) file. #200

Closed rallepalaveev closed 1 year ago

rallepalaveev commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I tried to transfer the system from 32MB ProDOS .po file to a 4MB ProDOS .po file, so it can fit on the 4MB NVRAM drive (which I develop), but the system freezes at "Reading Kernel Config File". I renamed the file PROFILE to .PROFILE, which could not copy correctly, but still I get stuck at this stage. Any hints please?

burniouf commented 1 year ago

will this media boot ProDOS.FX ? in that case you must use ProDOS.FX to copy files to it, because ProDOS.FX is case sensitive, and allows extended filenames like ".profile" (lowercase, starting with a ".") Best way is to boot STABLE.32MB.po media, format 4MB.po and cp -r * to it

rallepalaveev commented 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Yes, it is bootable media and I run ProDOS from it (Link: https://github.com/rallepalaveev/Prodos-4MB-NVRAM-Drive

I will run ProDOS.FX as suggested, so hopefully that would do the trick!

Thanks!

Ralle.

burniouf commented 1 year ago

Let me know if you get issues using ProDOS.FX it has a lot of enhancement over ProDOS 2.0.3, specially around BLK devices (advanced remap...etc...)

rallepalaveev commented 1 year ago

Hi,

"cp -r *" worked nicely and I managed to copy all files from the 32MB image to my 4MB one!

I did not encounter any issues with ProDOS.FX

Many thanks!

R.

burniouf commented 1 year ago

does ProDOS.FX/A2osX boot properly from your device ?

rallepalaveev commented 1 year ago

Hi, I have been just testing on an emulator to create an image. I will soon test it and post the results.

One thing I noticed is that some files are just not seen when listing the directory from within ProDOS. If I put QUIT.SYSTEM, then I see a list of files and folders, which I can be browsing and executing. If a file is of type 06 (BIN) it is not displayed, as if not existing. If I quit to BASIC.SYSTEM, then when I browse I can reach the files and execute them.

R.

*PS: Other files are not displayed too - type $F1. I tried to run A2D with ProDOS.FX (emulator) and it crashes. **PPS: Could it be that the files have to be lowercase? Will try this and then I am ready to create an image to test with my HW.

burniouf commented 1 year ago

Please join :

https://join.slack.com/t/a2osx/shared_invite/zt-ens62cl0-xeAFLjlRfUSMtzdc6o~Xew

easier to track your issue there...