Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!ndsuvm1!plains!overby From: overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: My continuing difficulties Keywords: ls, serial ports, fdisk Message-ID: <4081@plains.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 90 16:04:54 GMT References: <1205@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Reply-To: overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 44 In article <1205@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes: >Here's my 'evergreen' problem list for minix. I have 1.5.5 working, except >for these problems: > >1. ls is broke, at least when I make it. does your system fully CRC check? did you rebuild (and install) the library first? >2. Serial port doesn't work. I try term and kermit, and they're both As distributed, Minix requires modem control. try changing /usr/include/minix/config.h so that rs232.c doesn't use modem control. that worked for me. >3. Fdisk doesn't like my disk. I have a CMI 30MB disk, which the BIOS do you set the number of heads (-h) and number of sectors / track when you run fdisk? >4. No format program. Bruce went to the trouble of adding it to the use dos. > kernel, but I have seen no mention of how to use it or (gasp!) > a format program. Imagine this -- a format program that > builds a bad track table that mkfs could use to map out bad > blocks! Sorry, That's illegal. Inteligence in the PC world is strictly NOT allowed :-) >5. Has anyone else noticed that if you try and put a hd3 partition on > your disk, and it has bad blocks in it, that the root fs load > gets garbled up? I don't even pretend to know how to fix > this! to be expected, since the partition is scraped raw into memory. try movin the disk areas you use for hd3; if necessary, you can set the image device with 'i' from the boot menu. -- Glen Overby uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)