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From: CRAWFORD_B%PLU.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (brian)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Problems with using /dev/hd3 as ram image
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Date: 8 Mar 91 20:23:28 GMT
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We're using /dev/hd3 as a ram image for our machine here at PLU.  We're
running Minix on a 286 with 4 megs of memory.  We partitioned the hard drive
into three partitions: one for DOS, one for Minix, and one for the ram
image.  Finding a 290K ram disk (which is what we had from floppy before
this) to be too small, I mkfs'ed /dev/hd3 into a 1,000 block device and
copied all the stuff I wanted on the ram disk to it.  I then did mknod to
create all the devices in the /dev directory.  Now, when Minix boots, the
ram image is loaded (once Minix figures out the floppy in drive 0 is not
a root file system) from /dev/hd3 into extended memory.  It works great.

Have you tried this with your system?

brian crawford (CRAWFORD_B@PLU.BITNET)