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From: abadia@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (antonio badia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: yet another question from a novice to the experts
Message-ID: <1991May17.200114.10779@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 20:01:01 GMT
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Hi there. I just received my Minix version for the Macintosh a few days ago.
The first thing I realized is that the manual is so bad that it's almost
useless (and what do I do with all that stuff about PC, Amiga, etc. versions
if what I bought was Macminix? Is so expensive to do separate manuals and
not mix things?). Anyway, thanks to patches received from people in the
network I finally got Macminix installed in my hard disk. Now I have trouble
mounting things because "mkfs" gives me errors and I think I am not following
the instructions correctly. I insert an empty Mac disk in the drive
and type: "mkfs /dev/fd0 720" and get the error message: "unrecoverable
writing error onn device 2/0, block 719. Error: File system is too
big for minor device. Line 1 being processed when error detected".
Do I need to use "hdopen" before I can get to
the diskette, and do things with it? Or should I change some parameters?
I'm using a Mac SE/30 with one internal drive and 40M hard disk and 5 M of RAM
in case it helps.
Any advice and\or corrections on the manual (ANY part of it) will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks,
Antonio.
P.S. After those problems when I tried to use my communications
software (Red Ryder 9.0) with the modem I got system errors. Can I
blame this on Macminix or it's just a coincidence?