Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte -- Universiteit Twente) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: root disk size was: running root from a harddisk instead of RAM Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 91 09:33:20 GMT References: Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Lines: 34 oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel) writes: >I just finished patching ST-Minix all the way up to 1.5.10.3 from the >PH distribution (1.5.10) > >Now what ??? Before I go about compiling 1.5.10.3 {Just to make it >clear.. I mean the ST version} is there any way to change root from a >RAM disk to a hard disk partition ??? I have more room on my harddisk >than RAM for root and would like the few hundred K that the RAM disk >uses back.... I can live with the slower access root on a harddrive >would give me... (At least till I can get more memory (RAM) for my ST) Just for the record, i just (yesterday) upgraded from 1.5.10 to 1.5.10.3; i had 1 meg of memory, a 300 k ram disk, and approx. 150k free on /tmp. Upgrade succeeded expect for 1 patch (kernel/system.c) in 1.5.10.2->1.5.10.3 Stripping the ram disk a bit (i.e. getting rid of every thing but bare minimum (I do have a boot disk with only a 65k image)) made this patch succeed. With 1.5.10.3 came one virtual console -- and thus 32k less (hardscroll disabled -- see kernel/Makefile). So i squeezed the ram disk back to 250k -- and had to re-patch the kernel (due to a accidental rm -rf /usr -- i can't advise you to do that :-). It succeeded! As a resume i want to state that you don't need to get rid of your ramdisk to come up to 1.5.10.3. Klamer PS Thank you all for making 1.5.10.3! I especially like the virtual consoles! -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer