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Subject: Re: Minix on a PS/2 Model 30
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Kees J Bot wrote:
> 
> In article <380791d1.40416129@news.telinco.co.uk>,
> Paul Sherwin <psherwin@telinco.co.uk> wrote:
> >On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:48:50 +0200, Steffen Sobiech
> ><ssobiech@cityweb.de> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>I am new to minix (2.0.2 for 286) and tried to install it on an old
> >>IBM PS/2 Model 30/286 .
> >>The problem is: minix does not detect the harddisk controller in that
> >>machine. I don't know the type of that controller, but I suppose it's
> >>some special IDE-compatible implementation.
> >
> >These computers use a microchannel bus, not ISA. AFAIK Minix doesn't
> >support this. Throw it away and get hold of a standard clone 286. (you
> >can keep the monitor...)
> 
> Where does this "doesn't run on a MCA bus" idea come from?  On the first
> page of the installation manual:
> 
>         "The minimum system MINIX can be installed on comfortably is an
>         IBM PC/AT or PS/2 ...."
> 
> To get the hard disk working, try 'hd=esdi' first, then if that fails,
> 'hd=bios'.  You set this using the boot monitor, see the manual.  Don't
> forget to type 'save'.
Ill check that. It should work well with the hd=bios
setting...hopefully...

> 
> >>Second question:
> >>Can XFree86 be compiled under Minix?
> >>Would be cool to use the old PS/2 as X terminal...
> >>
> >I believe this was done in a pre-V2 version as a special. Remember
> >that X uses lots of computrons and memory, so it will run slowly if at
> >all.
> 
> I've never heard of X for standard Minix.  Once you've added enough
> cruft to Minix to support X you end up with Minix-vmd.
So I cant compile it?

> --
> Kees J. Bot, Systems Programmer, Sciences dept., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> Minix:       http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/   ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/
> Minix-vmd:   http://www.Minix-vmd.org/        ftp://ftp.Minix-vmd.org/
