Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Using Minix filesystems in MiNT!
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.130611.1777@doe.utoronto.ca>
Summary: Use the mkfs in the Minix ST demo disk
Keywords: minix mint
Sender: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1991 13:06:11 GMT


Guess what? The Minix ST demo disk just announced by Andy Tannenbaum in
this newsgroup sports a _working_ mkfs. I have made my D partition into
a Minix partition. Even though I don't have Minix, I can use MiNT 1.7
(the mintm.prg version), which supports Minix, and I have a partition
which can use filenames like y.tab.c or hack.tar.Z!!

WARNINGS:

1) KNOW what you're doing. I disconnected my main HD and tried it out
   on my old Megafile 30. Even then, I ended up having to reformat the
   whole thing (including the C partition) the first time around. Try
   using the command on a floppy first.

2) Read all of the cautions in the MiNT distribution on using Minix file
   systems.

Happy hunting!


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