guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau) (12/11/90)
Question 1: I've been trying to create some blank filesystems under Amiga MINIX. I format floppies using MSH (also tried a real PC) and then type mkfs /dev/dd0 360 and/or mkfs /dev/dd0 720 Both commands succeed, but then a mount /dev/dd0 /user will return an error of "not a valid file system" What am I doing wrong? So far I've had to diskcopy an exisiting fs (like /usr disk) and then delete all files on it. I now have an "empty" file system disk that I diskcopy when I need a new disk. There must be a better way! Question 2: what's the difference between /dev/dd0 and /dev/fd0 ? I couldn't find reference to /dev/dd0 in the Amiga section of the manual. -- W. John Guineau grep meaning life | more Digital Equipment Corporation guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com or wjg@wpi.wpi.edu
jmw@sdchemg (John M. Wright) (12/11/90)
In article <1990Dec10.123052@wjg.enet.dec.com> guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com writes: >I format floppies using MSH (also tried a real PC) and then type > mkfs /dev/dd0 360 >and/or mkfs /dev/dd0 720 > >Both commands succeed, but then a mount /dev/dd0 /user will return >an error of "not a valid file system" > >What am I doing wrong? I have also experienced considerable difficulty with the mkfs command on my B2000. Sometimes it behaves as you describe, and sometimes it reports various disk errors, either while running mkfs or on the attempted mount after mkfs. Curiously, it does succeed occasionally. On my daughter's 500, it works properly most of the time, and the disks thus prepared will then mount OK on the 2000. Has anyone else seen this sort of behaviour? Does anyone know what is going on, or have a fix? Also, I was wondering if anyone had gotten Amiga MINIX working with a 68020 or 68030. I have an A2620 card with 2 megs of 32-bit RAM which I can't use with MINIX! >-- >W. John Guineau grep meaning life | more >Digital Equipment Corporation >guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com or wjg@wpi.wpi.edu John Wright Chemistry, B-014, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093 jmw@chem.ucsd.edu jwright@ucsd (619) 534-3049