Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX/ST Using only 4 partitions.
Summary: other BMS hard disk tricks
Keywords: BMS root partitions
Message-ID: <551@mks.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 15:43:46 GMT
References: <265@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 29

In article <265@lzaz.ATT.COM>, hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
> ALSO, I am using a BMS 100, and having no problems at all.

Agreed! My BMS 100 controller has worked flawlessly with MINIX. 

I had to pull one little trick to set things up as I wanted.  I have two
Seagate ST-225's, and I want to use one for TOS, and the other for
MINIX. 

I first recompiled the system so MINIX would understand about the second
drive.  No problems there.  The problem was that I wanted a 1 meg
partition for the root, and the rest (19 megs) to mount on /usr.  But,
the Berkeley partitioning program won't allow a partition larger than 16
megs.  At least, it won't if you try to dial your partition size from
the dialog box.  However, if you add a line to bmsinit.dat to add a new
default partition scheme, you can have a 1-19 set of partitions.  I
haven't been able to look at the partition table to be sure it was
written correctly, but so far so good. 

So, I now have two 10 meg TOS partitions on one drive, and a 19 meg
MINIX /usr partition on the other.  I think I died and went to heaven. 

Now to apply all these fixes and new programs people have been posting.
Thanks to you all.
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     Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
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