CF Card File Transfer - Linux/OSX

[jph98]

Hi all,

So I'm looking to get my WHDLoad license onto the CF card I have for the Amiga and I'm running into a few issues, mostly because I don't have a Windows box in the house at all. I've got Centos 6 and OSX Mountain Lion.

How do people generally cope with these platforms? Are there any tools or utilities that can help out here? I'm played about with fdisk, mount and e-aue on Centos, but because it's a work laptop I'm running into a few issues with SELinux on it.

That leaves me with OSX to look at tonight. Any suggestions before I do this?

Cheers,
Jon.

 

[edd_jedi]

To use an Amiga formatted CF card in OSX you need to give it read/write permissions using Terminal first, something like so:

sudo chmod a+rw /dev/disk3

Where 'disk3' is the device name given to your CF card (check in disk utility.) Then you can mount it in UAE. Make sure not to initialise it when connecting, just choose ignore.

 

[jph98]

Ok, I got hold of FS-UAE and selected the device in OSX. I found it by running diskutil -l from the command line:

obo:~ jon$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 999.3 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: *4.0 GB disk2

and then adding the following to the config:

hard_drive_0 = /dev/disk2

but it moans about a kickstart file. Wah!

 

[edd_jedi]

Yes you need a kickstart file to run UAE on any platform I'm afraid.