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From: CRAWFORD_B%PLU.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (brian)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: Problems with Mini-x (Yes already!)
Message-ID: <51774@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 18:55:42 GMT
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I, too, am having problems with MINI-X.  I received the nine shell archive
files, transfered them to the Minix machine, put them in their own
directory and tried the command sh <filename>.  It started working just
fine.  All the directories were created that were needed and some of the
files began to be unpacked.  A few files got the length incorrect error (can't
remember the exact wording) and then after doing kernel/makefile.new, the
error message "Can't create pipe -- try again" came up.  This was on the
first of the nine files.  I didn't try any others.  I've looked at the
shell archive file; the code after unpacking kernel/makefile.new follows the
same format as the part that works--I don't see anything wrong.

Can anyone help?  What am I doing wrong?

I'm running Minix 1.3 (is this a problem; does MINI-X only work with 1.5?)
on a 486 25MHz compatible.  There is plenty of hard disk space and there
is plenty of ram disk space and there ought to be plenty of memory--there are
no other process running other than the shell upon bootup, update, and the
shell invoked to unpack the shell archive.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian Crawford
CRAWFORD_B@PLU.BITNET