Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc13!pa1285 From: pa1285@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (David L. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: How to use a hard disk with Minix Message-ID: <5510@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 1 Dec 89 23:11:13 GMT References: <312@trux.UUCP> <89332.220027TAR@MAINE.BITNET> <17535@bcsaic.UUCP> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Reply-To: dbrown@ucsd.edu (David L. Brown) Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 38 In article <17535@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes: >Aw, heck! I don't think a flame was called for. >I think there were people running with root on the hard disk back in >the 1.2 days, but that's been a long time ago. If you really want >to do it, I can look through my archives and try to find the patches. >With Bruce Evans' protected mode version of 1.3, the startup menu >lets you choose where to put the root file system. Allright, isn't one of the purposes of distrubuting source for Minix is so that users may change it. Different users have different preferences about everything. Since computer users have limited resources, compromises must be made concerning memory, and disk space. Ideally a system would have infinite ram, and infinite hard disk space, and an infinitely fast processor. I personally would rather have the system act a little slower, and free up the ram taken by the ram disk. Minix, fortunately, allowed me to do this. My current configuration has the root file system on hd2. I have two other file systems on hd3 and hd4. This configuration works fine. I am not booting off of hard disk, because I haven't put the effort into doing so. There have been plenty of postings on this and I would be willing to help make it work if someone wants to know how. By the way, I am running v1.3, on an XT clone with 45 meg of hard disk, 15 of which I have currently dedicated to Minix (this part keeps growing). ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------dbrown@ucsd.edu----------------------------------- -------------------------David L. Brown--------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: The above statements are my opinion, and are unrelated to my educational instutition. They are not important.