Linux on the bushstb

[Vincent Sanders]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 01:38:38AM +0000, Peter Duffy wrote:
> In article <20020207004657.E22312@trinity.fluff.org>, Vincent Sanders
> <vince@trinity.fluff.org> writes
> >And you can run linux if you have a compatible zip drive.
> 
> Hi Vincent, thanks for the web page and information.

thanks

> 
> I have a couple of questions which will almost certainly sound idiotic,
> but which principally stem from the fact that I have no previous
> experience whatsoever with the Archimedes or RISC OS, and am approaching
> Bush STB hacking from the platform of Linux/x86 (from fairly intensive
> web trawls, ISTM that only fully paid-up members of the RISC OS "club"
> can actually get any information about it.)

Heh i know how you feel, i was dragged up with risc os ,but i stopped keeping
up around 8 years back when i doscovered a real OS :-)

> 
> 1) What format needs to be on the zip disk? (I can mount, read and write
> ADFS from my Linux system, but I can't actually build an ADFS FS - no
> one seems to have written a "mkadfs" utility analogous to mkisofs etc.

Hmm theres an idea...The zip disc in question is in some bizare format
however chris sawyer at http://www.sawer.uklinux.net/bush/ has some 
stuff which may well be useful, that image of a disc is probably
what you need use dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/<your ppa drive>

If you can then mount the disc you are away...please tell me if this works :-)

> 
> 2) Sorry about this, but what is the taskwindow module, and why is it
> needed? 

The Taskwindow module is a dynamicly loadable module for RISC OS unfortunately
the linux loader linloader needs it. I cannot distribute this module as it
doesnt belong to me. I havnt a clue where to source one other than from 
a risc os machine. Maybe someone else can help...

wait
time passess...
wait
time passess...

Oh hell with it! right there ive fixed it. The sites had a bit of an overhall 
and now the general arm linux stuff is on a seperate page so you will have 
to go look for it (it is linked form the bush alternate software page, be 
sure to get the 0.2 release.

I have fixed linloader to not crash if taskwindow module is missing!.


Hope thats enough for you!

Regards Vincent