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From: raduga@netcom.com
Subject: Re: more installation silliness :)
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Will Rose (cwr@crash.cts.com) wrote:
: raduga@netcom.com wrote:

: This may not be a driver problem - the standard root image
: is ~600K, which will leave far too little memory over to
: do anything.  In fact, it may not be able to initialise
: the HD buffers, which would explain not recognising the HD.
: The TINYROOT system is 200KB.


when i boot with tinyroot, and mount my HD as /
i can get ~450k free out of 640 (real mode)

when i boot with ROOT, and mount FD as /
i can get ~800k free out of 1024 (protected mode)

my HD is apparently using BIOS routines for i/o.
does the ROOT image not support this?

i'm working on building a usr fs on it...
for some reason 'rz' isnt working, so im doing
the 'ol kermit -e 1000 -i -r
bit.  (kermit wont let me use 1024 length packets, but 1000 seems to be
okay. :shrug:
(btw, 'rz' just times out on me. it looks like its sending but not
recieving anything.  flow control problem? (can i fix? :)


: : will i be able to compile a kernel in 1024k? 
: : (or considerably less than that, since im booting
: : with tinyroot RAMdisk into real mode) 

: Yes.  I can recompile a kernel in 640KB in real mode.  The first
: you have for processes alone.

nice to hear :)

will it save me any more memory, 
if i can install my kernel image on the HD?

I dont *see* a /minix file on the tinyroot fs,
so i assume that the kernel is stored somewhere else.

is there a documented procedure for making a bootable
HD from the tinyroot boot disk?
what i've seen so far, seems to be more directed toward
making a bootable drive from the ROOT  disk
(which has an image as /minix and etc)

: You're actually better off with what you've got...


well. i think im better off with a semi-functional 
one-legged, and limping MINIX, than I was with d0s :)


seriously. dos processes seem (so far) to execute a bit faster,
but for power and ease-of-use, there is NO comparison
between (ex. part and fdisk )

(thanks ast!) 


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