[Oberon] RISC.img format

[Tomas Kral]

Chris,

I keep the old stable Debian, debian-live-7.2-i386-standard.iso
with no GUI, just for the purpose of USB/SD shuffling.

Most uptodate links may be found here,
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/bt-hybrid/
You may need a Torrent client for that.

Under Linux SD/USB appear as additional /dev/sd[a-z] devices, when
inserted. You may watch for newly added one by
$ dmesg | tail

I am also interested in LEO, as I believe it provides support for
OBERON.FS so I could prepare test SD images for 'Project Oberon 2013' in
it?

I found a lot of links at ETH site on different flavours of Oberon. Can
you please guide me to the correct one? I read in the manuals that
Oberon0 has to be imaged/booted first to commence installation steps.

This one?
ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/Native/StdAlone/

> 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]?

Admittedly, I do mostly FTP on RPI<-->x86, though using NFS (Network
File System) would allow drag and drop on shared folders. [ using your
jargon, fetching a piano nextdoor for daily papers left on its top :-)
] 

But with Oberon Station, I plan to use RS232 link to exchange files, I
can also try initial booting over it, so as to follow the build process
documented. 

On Saanlima FPGA boards, RS232 is wired as a separate micro-USB channel,
that makes it easy to connect with RPI.

> 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

Rather ingenious way of text exchange, something I'd love to learn. But
it may take me a while and I am right at the beginning of my learning.

Many thanks so far.

-- 
Tomas Kral <thomas.kral at email.cz>