Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Thanks for the turn-on Keywords: Just Got Introduced Message-ID: <3459@ast.cs.vu.nl> Date: 2 Oct 89 18:39:35 GMT References: <10825@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 21 In article <10825@dasys1.UUCP> hadji@dasys1.UUCP (Toby A David) writes: >A.. Since I have 3 meg of memory, what is the best way of making full >use of it (kernel/process) ?. The only way under 1.3 is to use 512K or 640K as program memory and the rest as RAM disk. On partition 3 of your HD create a MINIX file system with mkfs of size 3M - {512K | 640K}. Put files on it. When booting, leave the boot diskette in the drive when you hit =. The partition 3 will be copied to the RAM disk as your root device. Certainly put /bin, /lib, and /dev there. To create /dev, you need to mkfs /dev/hd3 with a prototype file (see the book, page 398 for an example). With V1.4b, to be posted this Fall, you will have other options. >B.. Is there a easy for me to convert my AT version to XT including >360 install disks, or do I also have to buy the XT version? You don't need the XT version. The only real difference is which hard disk driver is present in the boot diskette. If the one you have now works, don't change it. You can read or write 360K or 1.2M diskettes with either the AT or XT version. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)