wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (07/06/90)
Hmm, I'll have to check out this new compression program. Better than LHarc? Huh. :-) Anyway, I've finally mostly finished the 1.3->1.5.10 upgrade, but I can't find any things that have anything to do with a new root file system, specifically /dev. I have a 1.44M floppy but I can't access anything past the 1200K limit, even though I do ``mkfs -t /dev/at1 1440'', and df tells me there are 1440 blocks. I presume this is fixed in 1.5, but how do I rebuild /dev/at*? -- Mathematics: That branch of Human Thought which takes a finite set of trivial axioms and maps them to a countably infinite set of unintuitive theorems. Wayne Hayes INTERNET: wayne@csri.utoronto.ca CompuServe: 72401,3525
rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) (07/06/90)
From article <1990Jul6.000656.13994@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, by wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes): > > Anyway, I've finally mostly finished the 1.3->1.5.10 upgrade, but I can't > find any things that have anything to do with a new root file system, > specifically /dev. I have a 1.44M floppy but I can't access anything past > the 1200K limit, even though I do ``mkfs -t /dev/at1 1440'', and df tells > me there are 1440 blocks. I presume this is fixed in 1.5, but how do I > rebuild /dev/at*? > It's not exactly fixed. One way is to create a new root.proto file with the new blocksize for the 1.44 Meg device. A better way is to use the makeflops shell script that comes with Bruce Evans format program. This creates a whole set of floppy devices with different minor device numbers depending upon the drive type. The correct ones are then linked to your usual floppy device, ie /dev/fd0. -- Mike Dobson Sys Admin for nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (AT&T 3B2/600G running Sys V R 3.2) Internet: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil or UUCP: ..uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30med or