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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: more installation silliness :)
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 00:50:24 GMT
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raduga@netcom.com wrote:

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

Good enough.

: 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?

No.  ROOT is meant for protected mode, so it doesn't use
bios_wini, which at present is real-mode only.

: i'm working on building a usr fs on it...
: for some reason 'rz' isnt working, so im doing

Lack of memory? rz may be exec'ing multiple processes,
or running on top of eg: kermit.

Lack of permissions?  Try chown root, chmod 4755 on rz,
and then log in as root - that should let you put stuff
wherever you want.

: 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? :)

Run stty default </dev/ttyn on the port beforehand, then (perhaps)
stty 9600 </dev/ttyn or whatever speed you are using.  I don't think
cts/rts is enabled in the default kernel - check
/usr/include/minix/config.h


Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

