source for diskboot & dinit to ans. questions

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Is the source for diskboot and dinit available?

I am trying to determine a couple of things.

  1. What exactly diskboot does when invoked with the -b 3 (install
    qnx) option.

  2. What diskboot is expecting to find in the .qfs file and what it
    does with it.

  3. When dinit is used to initialize a hard disk with the -h and
    the -f <image_file> option, if it allocates the entire drive and
    sets it up as a proper qnx type. Or do I have to do an
    ‘fdisk add qnx all’ first before doing the dinit?

Thanks,
Carlton

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I want the diskboot’s source too.

  1. What diskboot is expecting to find in the .qfs file and what it
    does with it.

It scans for /.diskroot, and mounts it where it says to.
Blank /.diskroot stands for “mount to /”.
If it found multiple blank /.diskroot 's, diskboot will prompt
for which one to use for root filesystem.

–
kabe

3

You can email your source request to source@qnx.com

–
Cheers,
Adam

QNX Software Systems Ltd.
[ amallory@qnx.com ]

With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge.
–Peter J. Schoenster <pschon@baste.magibox.net>
<kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> wrote in message news:a29alg$cr8$1@inn.qnx.com…

I want the diskboot’s source too.

  1. What diskboot is expecting to find in the .qfs file and what it
    does with it.

It scans for /.diskroot, and mounts it where it says to.
Blank /.diskroot stands for “mount to /”.
If it found multiple blank /.diskroot 's, diskboot will prompt
for which one to use for root filesystem.

–
kabe

4

Is there an option to mount to do the same thing?

It would be very usful when working with removable media. You could use a
single command to mount a device and the /.diskroot on that device would
tell mount where to mount it in the QNX namespace.

–
Bill Caroselli – 1(626) 824-7983
Q-TPS Consulting
QTPS@EarthLink.net


<kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> wrote in message news:a29alg$cr8$1@inn.qnx.com…

I want the diskboot’s source too.

  1. What diskboot is expecting to find in the .qfs file and what it
    does with it.

It scans for /.diskroot, and mounts it where it says to.
Blank /.diskroot stands for “mount to /”.
If it found multiple blank /.diskroot 's, diskboot will prompt
for which one to use for root filesystem.

–
kabe

5

Actually source@qnx.com is for internal requests only.
If you want the source to something, contact your sales
rep or your support rep with the request.

Erick.


Adam Mallory <amallory@qnx.com> wrote:

You can email your source request to > source@qnx.com

–
Cheers,
Adam

QNX Software Systems Ltd.
[ > amallory@qnx.com > ]

With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge.
–Peter J. Schoenster <> pschon@baste.magibox.net
kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> > wrote in message news:a29alg$cr8$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I want the diskboot’s source too.

  1. What diskboot is expecting to find in the .qfs file and what it
    does with it.

It scans for /.diskroot, and mounts it where it says to.
Blank /.diskroot stands for “mount to /”.
If it found multiple blank /.diskroot 's, diskboot will prompt
for which one to use for root filesystem.

–
kabe

6

I’ll bet this e-mail address received a lot of requests.

–
Bill Caroselli – 1(626) 824-7983
Q-TPS Consulting
QTPS@EarthLink.net


“Hardware Support Account” <hw@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:a2a35l$2kb$1@nntp.qnx.com…

Actually > source@qnx.com > is for internal requests only.
If you want the source to something, contact your sales
rep or your support rep with the request.

Erick.