lasse@me.chalmers.se (Lars Persson) (10/13/89)
Hi Folks! Once again there is a lot of discussions about new versions. I have just updated my 1.2 to 1.3, and ther is already talkings about 1.4 (abcd or so..) and even 2.0 What is 1.4 containing that 1.3 didnt have? And when will it be released? This talking about 2.0 what is this ?????? I am using a AT with to hd's.. Will there be any way of running in prot. mode? And how about a swapper in Minix? Would appreciate some clearification at these matters. Once again I'm using a friends account. Michael J (d88mj@rigel.sunet.se)
alfi@athena.mit.edu (Alfonso Gonzalez) (02/26/90)
Subject:Minix hard disk drivers Lines: 5 I'm trying to install minix on a PC with a seagate st251 40mg hard disk drive. The drivers supplied with minix don't support the seagate drive. Where can I find information about how to write a driver for this kind of disk?
ih3e@trinity.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ian Hoenisch) (01/25/91)
Hi, Sorry for not being more specific, the last article was written kind of quickly. SRGP is a Simple Raster Graphics Package and was written by Foley and VanDam etc. It is a platform for graphics programs and if one has a version of SRGP on his platform, many graphics programs will run on this platform. The reason we would like to port it to MINIX 1.5 is that someone could implement a very portable window manager and have everyone use it. We are going to port many software graphics tools that we have written in house to MINIX for a larger project and research. Thanks for all honest replies, Ian -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Hoenisch (ih3e@virginia.edu) or (ih3e@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu) Graduate Student, Computer Science Department, Thornton Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442 Virtual reality is REAL; How real is virtuality? --------------------------------------------------------------------
twilhite@isis.cs.du.edu (timothy r. wilhite kb0aso) (03/10/91)
I tried the Mnx 1.5 demo that was available via FTP. I fell in love with it! The demo disk ran fine on my system. It was a factor in my ordering the stock version of Mnx. I have a XT clone with a Seagate 225 20M HD. I received 1.5 from PH the other day. I made copies of the distribution disks and went to work. Well, for some reason after Minix loads the ram disk it will not come back and tell to put in the /usr disk and type return. I can boot with the demo disk. I ran the test on the harddrive that was indicated in the manual. It turned out fine. From what I can tell, Minix is not executing the file 'rc' located in /etc. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone might have. Thanks. -tim wilhite, kb0aso Subject: Mnx 1.5 boot problem Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: twilhite@isis.UUCP (timothy r. wilhite kb0aso) Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: Nyx -- Public access Unix, U. of Denver, dept. of Math/CS Keywords:
ih3e@pinstripe.cs.Virginia.EDU (Jan Hoenisch) (03/22/91)
Subject:DBURR Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: ih3e@pinstripe.cs.Virginia.EDU (Jan Hoenisch) Organization: University of Virginia Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 18:06:55 GMT I couldn't send mail to you, but if you could send me the responses you get about GCC to minix, it would interest me alot. I have looked for a version but all I found was the 32 bit version and this clearly did not work. Thanks in advance Ian -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Hoenisch (ih3e@virginia.edu) or (ih3e@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu) Graduate Student, Computer Science Department, Thornton Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442 Virtual reality is REAL; How real is virtuality? --------------------------------------------------------------------