Re (4): [Oberon] Installing Native Oberon

[shark at gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca]

Marius,

> Trying to. The listed partitions include
>
> IDE0#00   1036MB --- (Whole disk)

The working partitions are IDE0#01, IDE0#02 ...
As Dan said, create partitions as required 
using Partitions.Create, fdisk or efdisk. 

dan> Partitions.Create IDE0#01 100MB

For Oberon, 40MB is enough.  100 for Aos.

For example.
Disk: IDE0, 402MB, QUANTUM LPS420A
IDE0#00    402MB --- (Whole disk)
IDE0#01     39MB   6 DOS FAT16 >= 32M
IDE0#02     39MB  76 * Native Oberon, Aos
IDE0#03    100MB  76 Native Oberon, Aos
...

> Partitions.ChangeType IDE0#00 76 76
> 
> All failed. 

IDEm#00 is always the whole disk.  Do not try 
to change it except with a hacksaw.  =8~))

Pertinent documentation is at 
http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/betadocu.html .
You can also go to "http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/",
mentioned earlier, and click "Documentation" 
under "Latest PC Native Beta Release".  
That is the latest documentation.

> Back to fdisk to set a dummy partition type...

"Partitions.ChangeType IDE0#0n ..." works if 0 < n.

> (where ^ is a little arrow point upwards). 

In Oberon, the little arrow refers to the argument
of the command.  You should mark, select or highlight
the target, eg. IDE0#01, with the right mouse 
button and then execute the command with the 
middle mouse button.  Don't forget the "~" at 
end of the command.  If you let a command go
on taking arguments, eventually it might wreck
something you value.

An hour or two reading the documentation will 
save you many hours of grief.  

Regards,     ... Peter E.


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