Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: recompiling MINIX on ST
Keywords: general setup
Message-ID: <561@mks.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 22:28:31 GMT
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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I have just recently recompiled MINIX-ST, and thought I would mention
some of the steps I had to use. 

The first thing I came across was a lack of stack space in cem when
compiling files in the kernel.  I have now increased cem's stack+heap
space to 70000. 

Of course, that made cem too large for my memory, because I had set up a
512K ram disk.  So, I trimmed it down to 200K. 

Now I have found that fsck won't compile because of lack of space in
/tmp.  You can't win, eh? I suspect there is a balance between stack
space in cem and ram disk size that will work.  (Or maybe I'll use the
-T option to put the temp files elsewhere when compiling fsck.)
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The other day I mentioned that I had tricked the BMS formatter into
giving me a 19 megabyte partition.  I have now used the Supra utilities
to examine the partition table created. 

It is correct, but there was one thing I did notice -- the BMS utilities
tend to round the numbers to the nearest megabyte, whereas the Supra
utilities report the partition size in blocks.  I now realise that the
partition is smaller than I thought.  Why did mkfs allow me to make a
file system larger than the partition? Well, I guess I'll peek at the
source to answer that myself. 

In general, things are going well. Happy MINIXing.
-- 
     Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
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