MKpart_exe for Q40 & Q60

[XorA]

http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/linux/gentoo/d ... 5.4.tar.gz

Would appear to be the last known source of atari-fdisk.

Shoestring Linux sounds like a nightmare of GPL non compliance, I guess thats why I can't find it anywhere in google?

[Derek_Stewart]

HI,

Thank you for the link to atari-fdisk.

Looking at the source code, it looks like the Qx0 Shoestring Linux implementation was modified and not shared.

It looks like starting from the beginning again.

Please find attached a How To Guide that details the hard disk setup and boot up process.

Q60_HOWTO_IN.txt.pdf

Qx0 Shoestring Linux Install How To

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[XorA]

HI,

Thank you for the link to atari-fdisk.

Looking at the source code, it looks like the Qx0 Shoestring Linux implementation was modified and not shared.

It looks like starting from the beginning again.

Please find attached a How To Guide that details the hard disk setup and boot up process.
Q60_HOWTO_IN.txt.pdf

Given that atari-fdisk was not creating the file system, there is a good chance if I had an example HD image I could replicate the missing bit in a few hours.

Its a pity Q60 is not a machine in QEMU

[XorA]

I see this fdisk program with source.

http://biblioteca.museo8bits.es/ql/q40/ ... index.html

A quick look at the code and it seems to be doing roughly the right thing!

[Peter]

Shoestring Linux sounds like a nightmare of GPL non compliance, I guess thats why I can't find it anywhere in google?

I don't see why it should it not be GPL compliant. It was a one person work in the old dial-up internet days, therefore distributed on CDROM.
For me it is the first Google hit: http://linux-q40.sourceforge.net/

[XorA]

Shoestring Linux sounds like a nightmare of GPL non compliance, I guess thats why I can't find it anywhere in google?

I don't see why it should it not be GPL compliant. It was a one person work in the old dial-up internet days, therefore distributed on CDROM.
For me it is the first Google hit: http://linux-q40.sourceforge.net/

Yeah I found it eventually, but that was a long way from the 1st hit. All the links in that page are broken though (although waybackmachine has stored them all).

[XorA]

So two bits of good news, the atari-fdisk on Shoestring seems to be based on the 1.61 release of atari fdisk, so not much different from the source we have. The changes also seem relatively limited to a few lines of code.

[duncan]

MKPARTm.zip

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2 years on I have finally had the time to look at MKpart_exe. So here is a modified version of it that will create 4 QWA partitions of specified size. See attached.

Duncan

[Peter]

2 years on I have finally had the time to look at MKpart_exe. So here is a modified version of it that will create 4 QWA partitions of specified size. See attached.

Amazing that you found this worthwhile! Many thanks.
Maybe I need to redesign the Q60 for newer monitors.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi Duncan,

Nice work, a real improve on the MKPART from TT.

I never understood, why the 4th partition should be the rest if the drive space.

My partitioning scheme of 3 x QWA and 1 Linux, maybe needs to change, and dispense with the Linux partition on the first drive.

Maybe a better idea would to have Linux on a seperate drive. But Shoestring Linux is very old in Linux timelines.