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From: jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix 1.2 Fdisk
Message-ID: <2242@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>
Date: 22 Feb 89 15:09:00 GMT
Organization: Questar Data Systems; St. Paul, MN
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	This is probably a pretty stupid thing to be asking, but
	most of my experience is not on PC's.

	I'm having trouble getting the concept behind Minix 1.2
	fdisk. (I do NOT have a multi-partition fdisk with my
	DOS).

	I want to have 2 partitions on my 20 mg Seagate ST-225
	one for /usr and one to mount on /tmp so I can get
	patch to work for upgrading to 1.3.  For some reason
	I can't run fdisk /dev/hd2.  I get "Cannot read boot
	sector".  I can fdisk /dev/hd0 and /dev/hd1 but not
	any other partitions.

	#1:	If I do fdisk /dev/hd0 what should the parameters be?
		(I know that /dev/hd0 represents the whole disk but
		 I don't quite understand what this means to Minix).

	#2:     What should hd1 and hd2 look like?

	Thanks for any help.
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Jeff Holmes	                  DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org 
Questar Data Systems                UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff