Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX and harddisk Keywords: Can Minix run on harddisk partition like Xenix/DOS? Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 88 05:38:20 GMT References: <285@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 9 At least in 1.3 (I don't know 1.2) you can put all but the boot floppy on hard disk. You need three partitions. Partition 1 would be DOS, partition 2 would be Minix /usr, and partition 3 would be Minix root. If you leave the boot floppy in the drive when you hit =, rather than putting in the root floppy, Minix tries to load the RAM disk from a file system on partition 3. So you put root there. Of course you have to modify /etc/rc to mount /dev/hd2 as /usr rather than asking the user to insert the floppy. Once you've done this, to boot DOS you reboot with no floppy in the drive. To boot Minix you reboot with the Minix boot floppy in the drive.