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From: jejenkin@nmsu.edu (JENKINS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Problems with DOSDIR, DOSREAD, and DOSWRITE
Summary: Installation problems?
Keywords: MINIX, DOSREAD, IBM
Message-ID: <1516@opus.NMSU.Edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 16:10:15 GMT
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Organization: New Mexico State University
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     I purchased MINIX v1.5 two days ago, and spent most of yesterday
morning installing it on my 286 PC.  Upon completion of the installation,
I attempted to use the DOSXXX commands to grab some C code I wanted to
load up.  I keep getting a message that says "unable to open /dev/dosA"
(or dosB or dosC, whichever drive I try to read from).  The battery
of test programs supplied with MINIX ran and exectuted flawlessly; I am
entering the DOSDIR, READ, and WRITE commands exactly as stated in the
manual.  Any clues as to what is going wrong here??  Pertinent info follows:
12 MHz 286 clone with AMI VLSI chipset
MS-DOS 3.30
Drive A: 1.2/360 5.25 floppy
Drive B: 1.44/720 3.5 floppy
Drive C: 85MB Harddisk
         Partition 1: 32MB PRI-DOS
         Partition 2: 32MB EXT-DOS
         Partition 3: 1MB  RAM image for MINIX
         Partition 4: 20MB MINIX
This problem is most aggravating, since I am presently unable to port
or copy anything for MINIX from the ftp sites (all my comm software runs
under DOS).  Please help!!!

One other item I have a question about while I'm posting, and that is the
ps command.  When I press the F1 key, I get a listing of all the processes
that are currently running.  When I type the ps command, I get some message
about being unable to open some kernal file.  Have I somehow botched the
installation??

Please reply E-mail if possible, to jejenkin@dante.nmsu.edu
Thanks again,
Jeff Jenkins