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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Minix 1.5 question
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 00:29:57 GMT
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Stephanos Ormrod (phaedrus@klee.math.swt.edu) wrote:
: Ok, I got the disks today. Here's what has happened. 

: 16M does not work, so I switched it to 4M. Once I get
: up and running I will do the fix and set it up for
: 16M. Thanks to those who emailed it to me. If y'all
: are ever down in Texas, stop by and I'll take ya for
: a drink. :,)

: I do have another problem tho. Following the handout 
: I had I first put Disk #2 in (AT Boot Diskette)
: wait for prompt and put Disk #4 in (Root File System)
: hit the = key and wait for the next prompt.
: put Disk #5 (/usr System Binaries) in and hit ENTER

: I was given a login prompt. I logged in first as "root"
: then as "ast". Each time trying to run ls or fdisk. 
: Every time I was told "command not found" I even did
: a cd into the /usr/bin directory to see if a lack of a
: PATH was causing it, but no luck. 

: So what I have is a booted system that I can't run
: anything on. 

cd to bin, and make sure that eg: echo has the right permissions
(rwxr-xr-x, or 755) and right owner and group (bin.bin).
Then try ./echo Hello Sailor. and see if anything comes back.
If not, you either have too little memory (which I find hard
to believe) or something very odd is going on.  Once you've got
to login, things should be reasonably straightforward.

: One thing to note is my HD still has the MS-DOS partition
: on it. I didn't want to wipe it until I had tested MINIX
: running from a floppy. Could this have caused my problem?
: It's a 201M HD with 1 MS-DOS partition which uses the 
: whole HD.

No, all the kernel needs to see is an HD driver.  It doesn't
need to use it.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

