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From: beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ST Minix -- Mounting the hard disk on /
Message-ID: <196@visenix.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 88 12:07:35 GMT
References: <5269@louie.udel.EDU> <2637@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
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In article <2637@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
^In article <5269@louie.udel.EDU>, escd!es66!karl@decwrl.dec.com (Karl Rowley) writes:
^> 
^> The hard disk is probably fast enough to make the ramdisk unnecessary in 
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^> 				Karl Rowley
^
^I've done this for the IBM-PC version, for two reasons; i/  I want to run
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^I did is remove all traces of the RAMDISK, from the kernel (yes, it has to
^be recompiled).  I don't have the information with me, but I had to edit
^files in fs, mm, and of course, kernel. 
I did a similar thing.  If ROOT_DEV has a major device of 3 (wini) I do
not create a ramdisk and skip the copy of BOOT_DEV to ROOT_DEV.  The
changes were limited to fs/main.c.
^                                                        Personally, I think
^that there is probably enough interest to warrant using #ifdefs in the code.
^If there's enough interest, I'll post the diffs.
^						- Der
likewise when things settle down here.
^-- 
^	dtynan@sultra.UUCP  (Dermot Tynan @ Tynan Computers)
^	{mips,pyramid}!sultra!dtynan
^
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