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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Minix 1.5 question
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 02:45:04 GMT
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Stephanos Ormrod (phaedrus@klee.math.swt.edu) wrote:
: I will be taking an OS class starting this Thursday
: using Minix 1.5 as our study. I will be installing
: this on my home system to do my projects on. 

: I have seen several mentions of RAM disks and 640k
: and other things. I have 16M on my machine. Will 
: this pose any setup problems or anything like that?

: Also, my HD is IDE ~200M. Is there any strange
: partition size limit I need to be aware of?

16MB of memory is no problem; 1.5 has a partition size limit
of 64MB as I recall.  And I don't know the default setup, but
I had problems accessing large partitions until I increased
the size of one of the filesystem #defines: I'd be inclined 
to get Minix running on a 30MB partition, then mount a 64MB
partition and see what happens.  I think you run out of
inode slots.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

