Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!mmdf From: csrobe@icase.edu (Charles S. [Chip] Roberson) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Minix 1.2 on Compaq DeskPro 386? Message-ID: <5675@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 27 Nov 88 04:52:34 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 49 I have a Compaq 386 with the following configuration: 80386 @ 16MHz 80387 @ 16MHz 1.0 Mb of memory Base memory 640Kb Add. Built-in User mem 256Kb Compaq Reserved mem 128Kb Extended Memory 0Kb 1 parallel interface LPT1 1 floppy (A:) 1.2 Mb (5 1/4") 1 Hercules Graphics Card Plus Monochrome Board 1 Async. Comm. interface COM1 at int 4 1 130Mb Fixed Disk Drive (C:) Type 25 The version of minix that I have boots with a 384Kb ram disk in extended memory (/dev/ram) which contains / /bin /etc /tmp and loads from 1.2 Mb diskettes. I can boot minix to the following extent: insert boot diskette '=' menu screen appears ('f' = fsck on root diskette checks out disk Okay.) boot root via '=' and start loading ram disk. close to end (or perhaps at end) of loading ram disk I get: Unexpected Trap: vector >= 16 pc = 0x688 text+data+bss = 0xBF40 Ok, now my questions: 1) Will James da Silva's lock fix (1062@killer.uucp) get me up and running? 2) Can I expect timing problems running @ 16MHz? 3) I would like to partition off 10Mb of the 130Mb disk for Minix. Is this going to be a problem? 4) If I am going to have problems can anybody give me a reasonable estimate of how much effort will be necessary to overcome them? Please cc copies of your replies to me since I just (5 mins ago) requested to be added to the info-minix mailing list. Thanks, -c ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chip Roberson ARPANET: csrobe@cs.wm.edu 1328-F Mt. Vernon Ave. BITNET: #csrobe@wmmvs.bitnet Williamsburg, VA 23185 UUCP: ...!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!wmcs!csrobe Finally: csrobe@icase.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------