rcd@mtuxo.att.com (XG1V6-R.DUTT) (12/28/88)
The ST Minix documentation recommends that 1040 ST owners create a 512K RAM disk partition to store the root file system. In my experience this is too large a RAM disk size to recompile the Minix kernel. I have a 1040 ST with 1 Meg RAM, and, at first I created a 512K root partition on my hard disk (/dev/hd3). I put /usr on a 6 Meg partition (hd4). Small programs compiled OK, but when I started a make in /usr/src/kernel, I got error messages like "can't find ../h/com.h". Error messages like these can really lead you down the wrong trail. You start wondering why cc can't find include files that you know are there. On doing chmem +30000 on cem, I got "out of memory" messages. Reducing cem's allocation to 20000 gives "stack too low" errors. Suspecting that it really was a lack of memory problem, I re-created a downsized root file system (of 256K), and re-booted. With a 256K RAM disk, I was able to re-compile and build the kernel just fine, thanks, after doing a "chmem =70000 /usr/lib/cem". Rana Dutt ...!att!mtsbb!rcd AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, NJ (201) 957-3389