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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: (PC/AT) Minix hard disk partition ???'s
Message-ID: <91042810480@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 28 Apr 91 03:33:33 GMT
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Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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lips@vaxb.acs.unt.edu () wrote:
> OK.  Dumb question of the week.  [glowing sign that reads 'NEW USER' flashes on
> screen]  I've been playing with PC 1.5.10 for a little over a week now.  Is
> there a modification I can make somewhere to get more than 4 partitions on a
> hard disk?  I'm running on a 12MHz 286 clone at the moment with two 20Meg hard
> drives, and a 9meg DOS partition on the first hard drive.
I am working on a generalization of my Virtual Partition Table system in
MINIX.  I currently use it for the RAM disks (and the external RAM disk
server), but I am now moving that code into a general set of routines in
the kernel- kinda like the generalization of the do_vrdwt() routine in
misc.c .  I will post it as soon as I finish it.

Fred.
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