baugh@hal.CSS.GOV (Nam Myoho Renge Kyo) (10/03/89)
Hello, First I have Minix 1.1 and am attempting to move to Minix 1.4a. I have the PC version (not the AT...) but now have an AT class machine Yea, I got a copy of PC-Minix from a professor, (who was using it to teach an OS class) then got involved with my masters and one thing lead to another, so I'm finally getting to put it all together. I've got the 1.1 -> 1.2 kit, the 1.2 -> 1.3 kit, and the 1.3 -> 1.4a kits (the last part of the compiler I have to grab tomorrow...) While I have one question still outstanding on the 1.2 kit (mail is in route) I wanted to build a file system on my 2nd hard disk in my AT to do the upgrading in. However, my first disk is a 40mb disk (two partions, so one is C:, the other D:) [using the 'Seagate' software and .sys files] and then the 20mb is E: Is mkfs /dev/hd2 20000 going to work with the 20mb? Or is it going to look like /dev/hd3. I'm assuming that the .sys file makes DOS think the 20mb is E:, and that minix won't. However, I'm smart enough to make sure I have a backup of C: & D: first! Next, are the 1.1 drivers under the PC version of Minix going to have problems up with the hard-disk given it's using an AT (true blue IBM) controller?? I am under the impression that at_wini.c vs xt_wini.c is going to cause problems (I guess I just re-compile the stuff that uses xt_wini?? ) It sure would be nice to be able to just mkfs the drive, copy stuff on to it and begin to patch away... Anybody got some notes on this kind of 'porting'?? (notes on problems upgrading from 1.1 to 1.4 would be nice also, I didn't see anything on NDSUVM1 but I still have to dig through the message database....anybody want to help me by directing me to an appropriate message??, A guide for building stuff from the net (and upgrading) would make a pretty helpful monthly-message (& probably help the S/N ratio ) as long as it was in the descriptive enough, that is, in the same vein as Glen's minix list. Maybe somebody has one that they could post?? Well thanks for the time. 'Later -- Earl D. Baugh Jr. ENSCO INC. Internet : baugh@hal.CSS.GOV "Open the pod bay doors...."