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From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix on hard drive
Message-ID: <13696@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 88 18:27:49 GMT
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Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes:
>	 ...  I have an XT-clone and
>	the listing stated that minix would run using a 10 meg
>	hard drive. Does this imply that it will ONLY run
>	on a 10 meg hard drive, PERIOD (as tested) or that
>	it can only USE 10 meg of any size drive ?

I have a 20 meg Minix partition on my disk.  I don't recall for sure but I 
think Minix can go up to 64M (it seems right - 65536 zones) with zone size =
block size = 1K.  I know that in theory you can make the zone size a multiple
of the block size to support very large disks, but I'm not sure if anyone has
actually tried this.
					- Jaime

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