Subject: Re: KEGS problem
From: kentd@cup.hp.com (Kent Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.apple2
Date: 1 Oct 2000 22:13:04 GMT
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In article <39d0d567$1@hal.grnco.net>, Arkain <rwking@no.usa.spam.net> wrote:
>Exactly how do I get ADU from GSOS 6.0.1 to allow me to partition a "drive"
>file that I've put on S7?
>
>Arkain

KEGS doesn't support the protocol access to let Apple //gs programs
manipulate partitions.  KEGS only makes the individual partitions
available to the emulated environment.  I don't have information on how
to make partition info available to Apple //gs programs (I'm assuming
they attempt direct block reads to the SCSI device, which KEGS doesn't
emulate), and I think what you want to do can be solved in other ways.

Why don't you just create more image files for each "partition" that you
want?

KEGS does support "partitioned" image files if the image file contains
all the necessary partition info along with the valid Apple partition header
describing where each partition starts and ends.  One way to create
such a file is to 'dd' a raw disk image that contains partitions into
a file.  It should work fine.  But again, I don't see why you want
to do this.

KEGS' support of partitions was to allow you to mount existing Apple //gs
SCSI drives on your Unix/Linux machine and use all the partitions.

Kent Dickey
kentd@cup.hp.com