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From: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix-386 HELP!!
Keywords: Correct CRCs, Init doesn't start.
Message-ID: <3403@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 27 Nov 90 22:28:30 GMT
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In <1469@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:

>	I agree that is probably the problem.  Also, if one of those 
>routines is there, but is a 16-bit binary rather than a 32-bit binary,
>that will cause a problem.

Urk. I'd forgotten about that one. I wonder how bulletproof Bruce's makelib
script is against such problems. I use makelib and have not yet managed to
produce an inconsistent library, but then again...

>	Assuming that Peter meant F2 rather than F1, the information which
>Shoelace prints out, and the information under the "TEXT" column of the
>information produced by pressing the F2 key should be the same.  They are
>on my system (I just checked it to be sure).

Which means that if you think that the information is wrong, you'd better find
out why before you use it with your hard disk. Otherwise, you might then find
yourself in the position to be able to experience the joys of bring an
Minix up from scratch :-(

>	Yes, I think that I point this out in the tutorial, but in case I
>didn't it obviously needs to be emphasized.  I have eight megs on my 386,
>so have no way of knowing what the minimum would be.  However, I would guess
>that unless one has about 4 megs, there may be some problems with using a
>RAM disk.

With shoelace, I find that it is probably better not to use a ram disk. With my
minimal emergency boot floppy, I leave /dev/at0 as the root device. This leaves
lots of memory to run processes. The penalty is that accessing the file system
is a lot slower, but loading the ram disk takes less time :-)

Earl
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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146
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