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From: wbb@hpclove.HP.COM (Bill Buzbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MacMinix Problems
Message-ID: <5030001@hpclove.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 90 17:58:39 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Calif. Language Lab
Lines: 67



Well, I got my copy of MacMinix yesterday and spent most of the
night trying to install it on my hard disk.  There are definately
problems with the manual's instruction (or else I'm REALLY dense).

I finally got it going, but I'm not convinced everything is as
it should be.  Some of the problems I had were:

1.  Page 67 reference to hdcreate.  This doesn't exist.  I assume
    they meant "maccreate".

2.  Page 67 line reading:

      /etc/setup_root harddisk:file1 2048 32000 32000 2048 1400

   Aborts with error.  After hacking around, I figured that instead
   of the actual filename "harrdisk:file1", they meant the /dev/hd?
   previously associated with the file.

3.  Page 68, after doing setup_root the manual says to copy the
    boot application to hard disk and launch.  When doing so, it
    fails because it can't find the root system.  I then copied
    ROOT from the boot disk, as it came up.  Unfortunately, it
    came up with the ROOT I just copied, rather than "harddisk:file1".
    This is corrected by selecting the Configure menu, and replacing
    ROOT with harddisk:file1 in boot partition box.

4.  OK, reboot again, the 2 meg harddisk:file1 image is copied to
    RAM disk and everything seems OK.  Moving on to the next step,
    initializing /usr.  As requested by the instruction, I reboot
    using the floppies 00.BOOT and 01.USR1.  The hdopen and mkfs work OK,
    but I die with "mount device busy" in the next step.  I assume
    that this is because my floppy is still mounted to /usr.
    I unmount /dev/hd0 (the floppy) from /usr and try again.  Death is
    swift as there was stuff on the floppy /usr partition that
    was apparently needed.  I try to copy the /usr/bin stuff to
    /bin, but there isn't space.  So, I reboot using my hard disk
    setup and copy /usr/bin/* to /bin/.  Next, I unmounted the /usr
    floppy and retry the /etc/setup_usr script.  There is a quick
    message saying that it can't stat /usr/bin, but everything else
    seems to work OK.

5.  Next, I edit the /etc/rc file to pick up my new /usr partition.
    This done I reboot, but I still get the old partition.  A quick
    check of /etc/rc shows that my changes disappeared.  I then realize
    that the changes made to /etc/rc were on the RAM disk and were
    not saved to my boot image.  I then mount my boot image, edit
    its /etc/rc and try again.  Success!

6.  Finally, I try to get rid of the RAM disk, as I don't like the
    idea of changes going away.  I eventually get it to work by
    deleting the lines near the beginning of /etc/rc that unmount
    /hd0 and eject, and then change by previous changes tht mounted
    my /usr partition to use /dev/hd1 instead of /dev/hd0.  Oh, I
    also unchecked the RAM disk box in the Configure menu.

I think it works now, but after all that I haven't had much time to
play with it.  Could someone who knows what's going on PLEASE post
revised instructions on how to do this?

Thanks,

.......bill buzbee  wbb@hpda.com


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