[Oberon] OberonStation

[Chris Burrows]

I've had no problems writing the image to a 2GB card using Win32 Disk
imager. I also use it with 8GB cards which are easier to get here and the
ones I have are faster than the 2GB cards. The main problem I have with
Win32 Disk imager is when reading the image back it is as large as the card
size! I have also been experimenting with dd for Windows but that has quirks
of its own as well. I have also used some Q&D code that I wrote in GPCP - I
think it is going to be easier in the long run to polish that off ... 

Cheers,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Bob Walkden
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2015 7:13 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] OberonStation
> 
> I used Win32 Disk imager. Maybe there's a fault in that. Anyway, it
> boots from the larger card so I'm happy to carry on with that.
> 
> B
> 
> > On 24 Nov 2015, at 20:09, enso <enso at apple2.x10.mx> wrote:
> >
> > I am still confused about that.  RISC.img is 1/4GB, and the
> software cannot currently address anything beyond that.  I use 1GB
> and 2GB cards (it's hard to find uSD cards smaller).  You can use
> larger card if you wish, but "having to" use a larger card is
> indicative of some misunderstanding.
> >
> >> On 11/24/2015 11:49 AM, Bob Walkden wrote:
> >> Thanks - yes, I sorted it out with the image on Saturday, but I
> had to use a larger SD card than the one it originally came on (my
> sentence below is ambiguous).
> >>
> >> B
> >>
> >>> On 24 Nov 2015, at 16:31, enso <enso at apple2.x10.mx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Bob, you can always get a new image from projectoberon.com.  It's
> a
> >>> file called RISC.img, inside S3RISCinstall.zip, and it's 268.9MB
> >>> unzipped.  You can't just copy it onto the SD card, you need an
> >>> image writing program, or with linux,
> >>>
> >>> dd -if=RISC.img -of=/dev/SD...(whatever your sd device name is).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On 11/24/2015 04:39 AM, Bob Walkden wrote:
> >>>> I've also just bought an OberonStation. On Saturday I managed to
> >>>> delete all the object files on the SD card... :0(
> >>>>
> >>>> It's a great piece of kit and a really minimalistic
> implementation of Oberon (I also have NO running on a Thinkpad from
> the 90s). Definitely tightrope walking without a safety net, so I'm
> also setting up a nrf24l01 network using an Arduino attached to a PC
> so that I can backup my own files from the SD card. It's likely to be
> a bit Heath Robinson.
> >>>>
> >>>> I downloaded the image onto another SD card to recover. For some
> reason the image wouldn't fit on the original 2gb card.
> >>>>
> >>>> Good job I hadn't actually developed anything beyond little test
> modules.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bob
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 24 Nov 2015, at 12:26, John Stout <JSS at kgv.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've just bought an OberonStation and am getting to grips with
> it. I think the first task is to get another nRF24L01+ system working
> so that I can transfer stuff to and from it.
> >>>>>
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