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Subject: Re: Problems compiling kernel; problems with build(?)
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 10:46:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 10:46:43 1987
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Summary: Corrections to first posting



Sorry for the mistake in my original posting.  I have 360 KB (not 320 KB)
diskette drives.  In fact, the controller uses the NEC 765 which MINIX
expects.

I have tried the compilation / build about 15 times now and have been using
a number of brand-new (except for the MS-DOS formatting) 3M DS/DD diskettes.
Maybe my diskette drive heads need to be cleaned, but I haven't seen this
problem occur under MS-DOS or anywhere else under MINIX.  Is it that cc and
build do such an immense amount of disk I/O that the problem gets a greater
opportunity to manifest itself?

It's going to be a real trick to get the hard disk running when I can't
reliably rebuild the kernel off of floppies.

Thanks again,
Bill