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From: steven@m2xenix.psg.com (Steven Furber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MacMINIX question
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.070228.17352@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 24 Oct 90 07:02:28 GMT
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
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>from: steven@m2xenix.psg.com (Steven Furber)

Several questions/notes about MacMINIX

The installation manual does not seem to really spell out how the
/etc/setup_root program works.  I was able to eventually create the root
file system by doing something like the following:

maccreate 1024 slave:file         # create the Macintosh file
hdopen slave:file /dev/hd1        # open up the Macintosh file
mkfs /dev/hd1 1024                # make the file system
/etc/setup_root /dev/hd1 0 1024 0 0 0

Now the above line was the one that I had to change.  In the book the
format is:
	/etc/setup_root filename ramdisk hd1 hd2 hd3 hd4
When I tried using slave:file instead of /dev/hd1 for the filename, I
found that the script would not mount the file systems.

I also noted that ps is having a complaint about not being able to read
the kernel list.  I haven't looked into this very far yet, but I'm
surprized that the binary doesn't work.  I tried recompiling and kept
running into problems.

Just curious, is there any documentation on setting up remote logins?

This may not be as fast as the RS/6000 I've been getting used to, but it
at least has a good chance of getting fixed.