cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew) (09/24/90)
[Perfect_Partition writes...] > I want to get shoelace up. My disk partition is: > > partition 1 -- DOS > partition 2 -- Minix /usr > partition 3 -- Minix root (3mb and loaded in RAM) > > What laceup commands should I give to install > your program? Assume all the files are in the > necessary files as they are. > > I thought > > laceup /dev/hd3 wini > > followed by > > laceup -w 1 /dev/hd0 > > would do it. But I am hesitant because of the warnings on > the "Shoelace Installation" page and all my partitions are > perfectly set, so I don't want to mess up. Yes, this will do the trick. HOWEVER, things can still go wrong. I STRONGLY suggest that you practise first: 1. Put a formatted floppy disk in /dev/at0 (or /dev/fd0 as appropriate) 2. dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/dev/at0 bs=512 count=1 3. Put this floppy somewhere safe. It contains your *good* partition table. 4. Put another floppy in the drive. 5. dd if=/dev/hd0 of=/dev/at0 bs=512 count=1 6. laceup /dev/hd3 wini 7. laceup -w 1 /dev/at0 8. Now shutdown and boot the floppy (yes, the floppy) 9. You should now see the WiniBoot sign on message 10.Try selecting [1] for DOS. Try the timeout feature. Try selecting [3] for Minix root. 11.If all goes well then laceup -w 1 /dev/hd0. 12.If all is not well, you can recover your original partition table by booting Minix the *old* way (ie without using shoelace), then with the saved partition table floppy (write protect it!): dd if=/dev/at0 of=/dev/hd0 bs=512 count=1 You will find that your root partition is no longer loaded into ram disk. In order to achieve this effect, you will have to edit /etc/config to select the ramdisk to be the root, or set a non-zero ramdisk size. Earl -- Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168 EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146 ----------------------------------------------------------------------