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First post, by brostenen

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Hi all.
First I need to explain what my goal are, but at the end, it is just about how to handle partitions....

I have this PiStorm in my Amiga500. And I have a full installation of AmigaOS that I have done a image copy of and is currently sitting inside an IMG file on my Linux machine.

On the PiStorm, there are this software named EMU68 that are basically a baremetal JIT translation layer, that are installed by creating a FAT32 partition on the SD card and then just copy the files from the inzipped archive.

But if I need to restore the Amiga IMG file that contain my full Amiga install, then the flasher tool will delete all content on the SD card. And that is no use, because then I will loose the FAT32 partition with the EMU68 software. In other words... I am in a bit of loss here, as to how to aproach this issue here.

Basically. How to go by this, restoring partitions to a drive, without loosing any excisting partitions? And I need a Linux way, because I dont have any Windows installation that are modern enough and all my data is on my daily driver that runs Linux.

Any thoughts or anyone know how to achieve this? I know this is Amiga related, but at the end it is all about partition management anyway....

Thanks in advance....

Last edited by brostenen on 2023-02-13, 00:37. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 1, by brostenen

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I found the solution to my woes....
All I had to do, was to create a partition with ID=0x76 and then DD the image file into that partition.
No biggie, as fdisk can do the ID change and then it is no problem DD the image file.

Also. I failed to realise that EMU68 need a type 76 partition, that acts like a real harddrive.
Inside this partition, one can create multiple Amiga partitions. A bit like a virtual harddrive.

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