[Coco] HD size for NitrOS-9

[John T Chasteen]

Willard

What is the command line to install a partition on an IDE HD with NitroS9
?
I have the Cloud-9 HD controller.

John
 
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:17:05 -0600 Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
writes:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:21:03AM -0300, Diego Barizo wrote:
> > What would be a nice, big size for a HD to be used with NitrOS-9?
> 
> I have 2 95M partitions on my IDE drive.  I'm using 14M of one of
> them, and that's with just about everything that exists for OS-9
> installed, and a bunch of gifs :-).
> 
> You may have trouble if you use clustering (more than 1
> sector/cluster).  At this point, we're pretty sure all the
> cluster-size related bugs have been shaken out of NitrOS itself, 
> but
> there are all the other programs people wrote for OS-9 that may do
> low-level filesystem access and assume 1 sector per allocation 
> unit.
> 
> Using 1 sector/cluster limits your partition size to 128M.
> 
> Willard
>