matten@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (jeffrey matten) (09/12/90)
Last week the professor in my Op Sys class gave us Minix version 1.2 We are supposed to familiarize ourselves with it. I get it up and running - no problem. I have one floppy drive and one hard disk. I partition the hard disk with Disk Manager. A partition is cleared out for Minix. [formatted] Disk Manager asks me how to prepare the newly formatted partition. It gives me three choices Xenix, pc-ix, and other. I chose Xenix. I guessed that since Xenix and Minix are both Unix derivatives they should have similar file systems. When I choose Xenix it gives me a choice of 3 or 4 I have no idea what these numbers refer to. I boot Minix. Then I use mkfs /dev/hd4 3000 to format the partition for Minix. Then I try to mount it on /user. I use /etc/mount /dev/hd4 /user ... it upchucks and tells me hd4 is not a mountable file system. Did I get everything totally wrong? The professor for my Op Sys course left for Switzerland to attend a conference. He'll be back in two weeks. The day he returns, the assignment is due. So I'll get no help at this end. I suppose I could manage from one floppy drive; having the files on a hard drive would make this semester more bearable. Send mail to matten@handel.colostate.edu on internet -- Jeffrey S. Matten | "...logic is a very pretty flower Fort Fun, Colorado | that smells BAD!" matten@handel.cs.colostate.edu | -- Mr. Spock