Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!geoffs From: geoffs@brl-smoke.ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn ) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: MINIX with 1 FLOPPY Message-ID: <7861@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 10 May 88 15:56:25 GMT Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 15 Keywords: harddisk,floppy,/dev/hd1 QUICK QUESTION: How do I bring up MINIX on a 1 floppy and Hard Disk system? I have one floppy and 2 hardisks. When I try to umount the floppy, I get "device busy" message. Therefore I can't use any of the other MINIX disks; please do not tell me of a bug fix, since I can't even get at the source disks! I also can't seem to access the hard disk. (I've tried "mkfs /dev/hd1", even after using chmem =BIG_NUMBER, but I still can't write to the hd). (by the way I have 2 Hard drives, /dev/hd0 is MSDOS). /dev/hd1 is to be all MINIX. THANKS FOR ANY HELP! -- ---> geoffs@brl.arpa --