asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) (05/28/91)
PS2/50Z - 286, 30M HD, 1 3.5 1.44M drive Well, I finally got MINIX transfered from the 5.25's I bought to 3.5's. Now my probelm is this - It will not run on my Hard Drive. I tried the dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/dev/null count=200 thing and got 0+0 0+0 no records written or something to that effect I know, I know - recompile the kernel. I plan on doing that following the instructions in th manual Problem is - I cannot figure out how to increase the size of my RAM disk. Specifying it at the (=, r, s, etc) prompt does no good, since it re-assigns it the size of the root FS disk (130). So how do I increase the size of the RamDisk? I tried making a copy of the root fs onto a disk that I had given a 400 block filesystem to. It boots most of the way, but then never gives me a login prompt. And if I try something like cp /dev/ram /dev/PS0, it reassigns the filesystem in PS0 to only 130 blocks! I need to have a larger RAM disk so that I will be able to compile the Kernal again so that I can build a boot disk capable of handling my HD controller. Help me please. Thanx --------- ### ## Courtesy of Bruce Varney ### # aka -> The Grand Master # asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu ### ##### # PUCC ### # ;-) # # ;'> # ##