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From: archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX question
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.141136.16879@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 90 14:11:36 GMT
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steven@m2xenix.psg.com (Steven Furber) writes:

>>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.

It looks like the wrong setup_root(e.g., the IBM one) script got into the
distribution.  I will post the correct one as soon as I can get to it.

Joe Pickert