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From: Chuck_M_Grandgent@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 1.3 hard disk question
Message-ID: <19106@cup.portal.com>
Date: 3 Jun 89 23:14:50 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I'm still in the process of trying to upgrade my 1.2 to 1.3.
I have two partitions, hd2 @ 6680 blocks, and hd3 @ about 3500.
I'd changed 1.2 to have it load the file system from hd2.
I did this by changing ROOT_DEV in const.h for file system stuff.
I also changed main.c in file system stuff to not load f.s. to RAM
disk.  I set the RAM disk to just 10k,'cuz I really don't want it.
This worked fine for 1.2, but doesn't for 1.3.
As I initially load the 1.3 root file system floppy, it sets my
hd2 to the size of my f.s. floppy, 360 blocks.  It also copies
that root file system floppy contents to my hd2.
Which module is doing this and are there any other suggestions for
preventing Minix from trying to load my root file system to RAM
disk.  By the way, I'd make hd2 minimal, say 400 blocks, but then
I can't get mkfs to make a file system bigger than about 7000 blocks,
so that's why I like my root at 6680 and the rest in hd3.
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sun!portal!cup.portal.com!chuck_m_grandgent        K1OM
AEG Modicon, Industrial Automation Systems Group
North Andover / Concord, Massachusetts
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