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From: Peter_Van_Epp@cc.sfu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix 1.5
Message-ID: <7161@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 1 Jan 90 06:08:45 GMT
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Since Andy requested earlier reports on what machines 1.5 are up on here is
mine:
Tiawanese turbo XT clone (4.77 / 8mhz) Adaptec 2070A rrl disk  controller
with Priam 60m disk (split by the controller into to logical volumes C: and D:
to DOS), DOS has the first 30m drive and minix has a ~29m first partition    
(on /dev/hd6) and  a 2m root partition on /dev/hd7 (Xt_wini.c need hacking
to use the Adaptec controller), 2 360k 5.25 in floppies, 2 megs of EMS ram
which currently consists of a 2 meg ram disk on /dev/ram. The installation
of the EMS board has absorbed most of the weekend (it wasn't as easy as in
1.3 thats for sure!). The kernel went together very easily, about all I had
to do was empty the proto.h files in mm and fs and create an empty one in 
kernel and compile the sucker (which in itself took a long time on and 8mhz 
8088 even with all the compiler liba and asld in ramdisk. By the way, because
I got tired of waiting while all 2m of mostly empty ram disk loaded (and 
because I wanted to be able to load the ram disk from a floppy) I modified
fs to only load the number of blocks that have been actually written on 
the root load device (about 460K in my current case) which cuts down the
load time a lot. In summary thanks for a great job Andy (and Bruce and all
the rest of the people out there pitching in!) I am now going to try to move
1.5 over to the PS/2 model 55sx (16mhz 386sx) sitting beside my XT once I  
get some problems with booting from a 1.44 meg drive (or more correctly
not breaking my 360k 5.25 when using the new bootblok the 1.44 boots fine!).