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From: kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga Minix FINAL VERSION AVAILABLE!
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Date: 9 Jun 91 10:40:25 GMT
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In article <10169@star.cs.vu.nl> sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz) writes:
>sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz) writes:
>
>>A new, much improved, version of Amiga Minix is available for
>>beta-testing NOW! Some new features include:
>
>>- Minix can use all A3000 32-bit fastmem.
>
>We achieved this by increasing the CLICK_SIZE from 512 bytes to
>4096 bytes. One side effect of this change is that some small
>programs, e.g. ls, which was chmem-ed to 8192 bytes, will have
>to be chmem-ed to a bigger value. 16384 should probably be enough
>to fix all problems. So, if a program doesn't work correctly, try
>chmem +8192 <program>. Just thought I'd mention it, so that you'll
>all know that it's a feature, not a bug :-)

A warning if the above is true.  Make sure that *all* your mandatory
binaries have been changed appropriately before you go to boot the new
disk (if possible!).  The reason is that unless you do so, the binaries
that are used in the boot sequence might not work properly, and Bad Things
might happen as a result.

So be *real* careful, e.g. by backing up all the disks you're going to use.

>	Steven Reiz



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