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From: tina@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Yang Yuting)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Help using 'build' on a 1 floppy system
Message-ID: <1989Jul10.024421.27507@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 10 Jul 89 02:44:21 GMT
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In article <19238@louie.udel.EDU> LANCER%GACVAX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Lance A. Brown) writes:

>        I have an AT compatible machine with one 1.2M floppy and a 20Meg hard
>drive.  The floppy is A: and the hard disk is C:.  My problem is that the
>book seems to imply I need to either be able to use my hard drive or a
>second floppy when I run build to make the boot image.  What can I
>do with the setup I have?

I've built a bootable minix diskette out of the same system setting as yours.
What I did was to make a new minix file system on a hard disk partition,
copy operating system source code to it, compile the source code under direc_
tory fs,mm,kernel,etc. individually with the flage -Di8088 on, then run
build command simply join the six programs(bootblok,kernel,mm,fs,init,fsck)
together, output the image to floppy drive.

I do find having a hard disk partition working is crucial, but there is no
demand placed on a second floppy drive.

Hope this information is helpful to you.