[Oberon] Partitioning under BB

[Stauber Sven Philipp]

Hi,
 
There are two methods for partitioning devices under BB:
- Use the disk operation framework (GUI: Partition Tool, TUI: AosPartitions.Mod)
- Use Partitions.Mod under Oberon (see Partitions.Tool for a command list)
 
If you don't succeed using the disk operation framework, try Partitions.Tool under Oberon.
 
Note: If a device is open (open count > 0), the partition table is cached in memory and will not be reloaded from disk even when changed (since the partition numbering could potentially change which would cause serious errors when an application that has a reference to the partition table would use the old partition number as index into the new table). So if you want to create a partition on a disk, no other partitions may be mounted.
 
>It flickers, refreshes the display to be exactly as above, logs 'Finished' with no size info and Flags = 1
The situation you describe seems to match this scenario. Solution: The change was written to disk if the tool didn't report an error, but you have to reboot to see it.
BTW: To get a more detailed operation report, select the plugin "Operation", select the operation you want to see details of in the list of operations and press the button "Report".
 
>'les invalides' in the French sense (cripples?) seems accurate for *several somethings* here.... ;-)
If I find some time, I'll implement a little window for the Partition Tool which tells you to reboot to make changes visible, since the current solution (do change the partition table but be not aware of it) is obviously confusing/unacceptable.
 
BTW: The change log shows that I've fixed DeletePartition/CreatePartition in the release 24.01.2006. If you are using an older release, use Partitions.Mod under Oberon.
 
Cheers,
Sven Stauber

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From: oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch on behalf of W B Hacker
Sent: Thu 09.02.2006 12:03
To: ETH Oberon and related systems
Subject: Re: [Oberon] Problems withthe 24/01/2006 release -probs with Startmenu.XML



René A. Krywult wrote:

> Are you working from the AosCD.iso image,

Yes.

> or did you install it on HDD or USB-stick?

Trying to set up for instaling on a HDD, but
cannot create a partition.

Shows:

IDE0#0 Start 0  End 39070079 Size 19077 MB Type 256 (Whole disk)
Flags are empty

IDE0#1 Start 63 End 39054014 Size 19069 MB Type -1 (unallocated)
Flags [P]

Reports and logs 'Finished' on a 'Delete' of IDE0#1 (unallocated).

- ask it to 'Create' a partiton of Size: 500 Type 76,

It flickers, refreshes the display to be exactly as above, logs
'Finished' with no size info and Flags = 1

Ask it to Format, Write MBR -whatever-  and get 'Selection invalid'.

'les invalides' in the French sense (cripples?) seems accurate
for *several somethings* here.... ;-)


>
> When I start from the CD, I can see stijn.skin work OK; but I can't get my Logitech-USB-Mouse to working. Therefor I started with my old BB (current version) and then installed from the zips.

The UI for that skin is missing half the old selections,

Copy-paste from the log to a text pad, or re-key the string;

SkinEngine.Load stijn.skin

- change it to 'xmas.skin' and exec it.

 From Xmas skin, the 'Look' button brings back the skin selector
and the rest then works as before.




>
> Rene
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>
>>Can't find any XML referencedin 'traditional'.
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>>But I have them ALL working if I start, for example, from 'xmas'.
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>>
>>Must be an XML issue...
>>
>>Bill
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