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From: scottc@bnlux0.bnl.gov (david scott coburn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Questions for Bruce on 386 patches
Keywords: 386 patches questions Bruce Evans
Message-ID: <2141@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Date: 20 Sep 90 14:38:23 GMT
Organization: Brookhaven National Lab
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I decided last night to install Bruce Evans 386 patches to my minix system.
I appropriated an little used 32M partition on my disk and made a duplicate
of my 1.5.10 system on it (see side note).  Now I have some questions.
These questions are mostly directed at Bruce Evans (I can't find his address),
but if anyone else wants to have a go...

1) from which directory should the file 'makelib' be run?  I created the
   directory /usr/src/minix386 and unloaded the tar files into it (bcc,
   bccbin16, bccbin32, and bcclib).  When I cd to /usr/src/minix386/lib
   /bcc and run makelib it complains about missing ../ansi, ../ibm, etc.
   Should I create these directories as empty directories, or should
   there be something in them?

b) I see in the cdif files in fix1.5.10 that the path for the original
   files to patch is /usr/src/lib or /usr/src/fs or /usr/lib/kernel etc.
   Should I move all the files from /usr/src/minix/lib (/fs, /kernel ...)
   up into these directories?  Will these then be the sources that the
   rebuilding will be done from, or will there be still another set (lib,
   fs, kernel...) within the /usr/src/minix386 directory?

now for the side note:

I transferred about 10,000 blocks of data between partitions using two
tars piped together.  It took about 20 minutes to complete.  So...

   2 (read and write) x 10,000,000 bytes / 1200 seconds = ~170kb/sec

Any comments on this through-put?  I have a ZEOS 386sx 16MHz, 2M ram and
a Conner 80M IDE drive.

scott coburn                                brookhaven national laboratory
scottc@max.bnl.gov [130.199.128.6]                          upton, ny, usa
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