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SFS Tutorial
« on: November 26, 2009, 03:28:40 PM »
I was wondering if there is an in-depth step by step tutorial explaining in detail how to go about preparing an SFS hard drive :)

Any ideas? Thanks!
 

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Re: SFS Tutorial
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2009, 04:39:39 PM »
1. copy SFS to sys:L (IIRC filesystems should be located in a partition that can be read by the rom so store your filesystems in the first 4GB of the HD in a FFS partition that can be accessed from KS3.1)

2. open HDToolbox. In the filesystems section, add the SFS located in sys:L

3. SFS will appear in the list of filesystems installed together with his version number.

3a. overtype the identifier by 0x53465300 (SFS) or 0x53465302 (SFS2, for partitions larger than 128GB). If you don't, the id will default to CFS (confused file system = stupid user sitting behind the keyboard).

4. Choose an empty partition and in the part where you set the block size, mask transfer, filesystems... choose SFS.

5. Save all the changes and exit hdtoolbox in a system friendly way. It will ask if you want to reboot, tell him you'll love it!

6. Once your machine has rebooted an alien partition will appear. You'll need to format it. You can format it from WB just like you would do with a normal partition.

7. enjoy. There are tools to perform a backup of the RDB, go make one backup as it would make save your precious data in the future.



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Re: SFS Tutorial
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2009, 04:40:55 PM »
Are you sure regarding 6? I thought you had to use a tool called SFSformat or something like that to format the HDD.
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Re: SFS Tutorial
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2009, 06:46:08 PM »
Ok - I followed this tutorial and created an SFS partition - OS3.9 will be installed on it. How much space does OS3.9 need anyway?

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Re: SFS Tutorial
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2009, 07:36:20 PM »
Stupid question - which is the latest version of SFS? I got 1.58 from here:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hjohn/SFS/download.htm
 

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Re: SFS Tutorial
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2009, 07:45:55 PM »
Why do I have version 1.58? When the latest (even on aminet) is 1.227 or something like that?
 

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Re: SFS Tutorial
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2009, 07:52:52 PM »
Isn't 1.58 a bigger number than 1.279 :P
 

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Re: SFS Tutorial
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2009, 07:58:00 PM »
Damn, all these years I've been doing my Math wrong :(