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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Making a bootable hard drive.
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 17:20:21 GMT
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Hieronymous Bosch (aww@tiac.net) wrote:
: Hello, I'm tragically new to the Minix scene, but I've got a quick question:

: I've set up my ROOT and USR disks all right, and they seem to work fine, 
: but when I run instdist, I haven't been able to set up a Minix partition 
: on my hard drive. I've cycled through the device selections a lot, and 
: the only options are /dev/hd0, /dev/hd5, /dev/sd0, and /dev/sd5, but none 
: of them get me anywhere. 
: I've managed to boot MSDOS from bootmon on /dev/hd0, but just can't get 
: the damned thing to make me a partition.

[hs]d[05] are essentially raw devices, the first and second hard drives.
You need to partition the drive, and I suggest using part, which is
very flexible and powerful and easy to use.  Like most partition table
editors, you can destroy your disk with no trouble at all, but it is
*very* informative...

You probably want hd1 as an MSDOS partition, hd2 as Minix, and hd3
as a small ( < 2MB) partition from which the Minix root file system
can be loaded.  Put bootmon on hd3 and mark that partition active.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

