cole@unx.sas.com (Tom Cole) (11/01/90)
Help! I am a firstimer to MINIX, and mostly Unix-ignorant. I am having a tough time deciphering how to install the MINIX stuff onto a hard disk on my Mac. I don't want to use a RAM disk unless I must, having scads of disk space to burn. The instructions are not all that clear to me, and I can't seem to make them work without the boot process still prompting me for the 01.USR disk. Any help of any kind would be greatly appreciated, even pointers into TFM that I can R.... :)
pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) (11/04/90)
In article <1990Nov01.143030.7813@unx.sas.com> cole@unx.sas.com (Tom Cole) writes:
Help! I am a firstimer to MINIX, and mostly Unix-ignorant. I am having a
tough time deciphering how to install the MINIX stuff onto a hard disk on
my Mac. I don't want to use a RAM disk unless I must, having scads of
disk space to burn. The instructions are not all that clear to me, and
I can't seem to make them work without the boot process still prompting
me for the 01.USR disk.
Any help of any kind would be greatly appreciated, even pointers into TFM
that I can R.... :)
I had the same problem...
I tried to edit the /etc/rc file (using ed of all things!!), but could
not get the file to be sync'ed to disk (it wrote it back to the ram
disk, not to the hard disk)...
Here's what I did.. I unchecked the ram disk from the configuration
dialog, and restarted minix.... it complained when I tried to mount
the /usr disketted, but continued merrily. I then mounted *my* /usr
partition giviing me the root partition *not* in ram and *my* /usr
mounted.. i was then able to edit /etc/rc to mount my /usr instead of
the floppy...
-Paul
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