[Oberon] RISC.img format

[eas lab]

Tomas Kral wrote:-

> I use fdisk or cfdisk to add new partitions, on a notebook with Debian
> Live on USB, the only machinery in our household having a SD slot.

I also need a live-USB-linux,  but googling gives vague leads.
Can you give a proven reliable URL for "Debian Live on USB"?

Is your BIOS on your notebook, made to see the SD as a USB;
since you apparently just copied the Live-on-USB to a SD-card?
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> I also run Debian on RPI, and through it's USB port I connect Oberon
> station.

Can you communicate: RPi <-> x86 ; via USB instead of the absurd
eth0 [I call it a railway system to fetch coffee from the next room]?
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> I also started toying with AOS @ ETH and OLR (Oberon Linux Revival by
> Peter Matthias) running natively on RPI, but I am at the very start of
> learning here.

ORL/LNO is good, provided you don't need to roam the directory tree.
I call them vehicles which demonstrate in the show room, but have.
problems to go out on the roads.

By contrast: LEO [ETHO for linux x86] is the ultimate go-any-where.
I'm using it now as the master coordinator where I need to extract text
from inet, and pdf, and 15 year old files on various disks;
 and build a [pdf for paper printing] legal argument.

On my current LEO-menu, I see for example - but with syntax coloring:-
     System.Execute Pdf2Txt /mnt/s5/Legal/CIPC/Summons/FSAA.pdf.
     /tmp/tmPDF

I can't remember the details now [Menus avoid needing to remember] but
also from the colors, I see that LEO's
 System.Execute calls a *nix-script, which fetches FSAA.pdf from
 a different disk and partition, and translates the pdf into ASCII;
 and then I can use LEO to read that ASCII from /tmp/tmPDF;
 and use that text anywhere [since LEO can access to whole file tree],
 e.g. to write pieces of the original-pdf-text to any LEO-files,
   using different colors, to associate different text-stretches,
 or build a plain text file, for later conversion to pdf for printing.

I don't like the modern fad that printing needs pdf, but LEO manages
to communicate with OpenOffice/LibreOffice via plain-text.


> I prefer Oberon Station, as it is very didactic, teaching the entire
> system design from scratch.

Yes, it seems to be a magnificent, and so far unique, teaching project.

== Chris Glur.