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Title: Filesystem access from Aros native booted from CD?
Post by: T_Bone on January 25, 2005, 07:54:38 PM

A friend wants to try compiling something in aros and asked me how to mount a filesystem from aros when booted from a cd, and I couldn't find out how. Would have asked on aros-exec.org, but it seems to be down at the moment.

Is there an NTFS or fat32 driver that lets you mount a windows filesystem when booting from the CD, or some other way to easily access storage (other than floppy) while in AROS native?

Or is it possible to make a small partition using PQmagic that's accesible from Aros? How would it be mounted?

Title: Re: Filesystem access from Aros native booted from CD?
Post by: bloodline on January 25, 2005, 08:02:19 PM

I'm afraid there is not NTFS or Fat32 filesytem for AROS... only FFS and CD (ISO whatever).

He will have to put whatever data he wants, onto a CD and then boot AROS and pop the other CD in the drive...

Title: Re: Filesystem access from Aros native booted from CD?
Post by: T_Bone on January 25, 2005, 08:13:14 PM

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bloodline wrote:
I'm afraid there is not NTFS or Fat32 filesytem for AROS... only FFS and CD (ISO whatever).

He will have to put whatever data he wants, onto a CD and then boot AROS and pop the other CD in the drive...

Can a small partition be made on the harddrive of type FFS? (maybe from a linux CD?)

Title: Re: Filesystem access from Aros native booted from CD?
Post by: cecilia on January 25, 2005, 08:44:40 PM

So, you are saying I can try other programs from a second CD??? hmm, I have to try that!

Does it automatically see the 2nd CD if I boot with both in their drives? (just to be clear, I have an external DVD/CD drive).

Title: Re: Filesystem access from Aros native booted from CD?
Post by: bloodline on January 25, 2005, 09:50:19 PM

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cecilia wrote:
So, you are saying I can try other programs from a second CD??? hmm, I have to try that!

Does it automatically see the 2nd CD if I boot with both in their drives? (just to be clear, I have an external DVD/CD drive).

The CD drive has to be on the ATA bus, I doubt any external device would work... it might but it might not.

Title: Re: Filesystem access from Aros native booted from CD?
Post by: bloodline on January 25, 2005, 09:51:00 PM

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T_Bone wrote:

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bloodline wrote:
I'm afraid there is not NTFS or Fat32 filesytem for AROS... only FFS and CD (ISO whatever).

He will have to put whatever data he wants, onto a CD and then boot AROS and pop the other CD in the drive...

Can a small partition be made on the harddrive of type FFS? (maybe from a linux CD?)

Yeah, you can make an FFS partition, using Linux, or an Amiga etc... or you could even use the AROS HDtoolBox, but I wouldn't risk my life on it... AROS can see FFS partitions on your HD.