matthew1@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Matthew J. Newhook) (12/28/89)
Hi out there. I followed the discussion on booting Minix from the HD with
great interest, as I have interest in doing so. Also I seem to remember the
original question concerning the eradication (or reducing) the size of the
Ram disk. I have no need of the RAM disk being 240K. It only has to be
100K at the most. How do I reduce the size? I hope that I don't have to
recompile the system, because I only have 512K at the present time, and
I can't even compile a small program let alone a monsterous thing such as
the minix kernel. A couple of other questions:
1. Why can I only get 5 meg out of a 10 meg Disk partition. It's the same
for both partitions. (Same number of cylinders). When I say
mkfs /dev/hd1 10000 (Approx. 10 meg) it says cannot write block, etc.
but mkfs /dev/hd1 5162 (or so) it works fine!
2. Can I compile Minix programs with TurboC and use them in the Minix
environment? It says in the book (or it appears to say) that you can.
How *exactly* is this done?
Thanks in advance.
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