atari-hd-image(1)

atari-hd-image1

Tool for creating a harddisk image for use with hatari

Usage

atari-hd-image size [filename] [partition name] [directory]

Overview

Create an ACSI/IDE harddisk image for Hatari with a single Atari compatible DOS FAT partition (using sfdisk, mkdosfs, atari-convert-dir, mcopy, dd and python).

Options

size

Harddisk image size in megabytes, 8-512. 512MB is largest partition size supported by TOS versions before v4.x and by mkdosfs (for Atari compatible partition formatting).

filename

Name for the harddisk image (default: hd.img)

partition name

Name for the single partition (default: DOS)

directory

directory for initial content copied to the image. atari-convert-dir tool is used to clip long file names to 8+3 size required by FAT and Atari TOS. If resulting file names aren't unique, you get warning(s), but script continues

Examples

16MB 'hd.img' HD image:

atari-hd-image 16

8MB image with partition named 'TEST', and files from content/:

atari-hd-image 8 8mb-disk.img TEST content/

No warranty

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10–Arch

Author

Written by Eero Tamminen <oak at helsinkinet fi>.

This manual page was written by Teemu Hukkanen <[email protected]> for the Debian project and later updated by Eero Tamminen for the newer versions of Hatari.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

From hatari 2.6.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.