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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!lehmann
- From: lehmann@cs.tamu.edu (Mark A Lehmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: MiNT and MINIX file system
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 05:01:53 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- Summary: Questions about the MINIX file system
- Keywords: MINIX, MiNT, file, system
-
- Well I finally installed the MiNT distribution kit. I had to do it
- manually. I think that I had the MINIX file system working too. I
- placed the file "MINIX.XFS" in the root directory of my boot drive "C:\"
- and I got the message that the MINIX file system was active.
-
- I then wipe everything about under normal TOS by simply copying a
- file to the partition that stores the MINIX partition.
-
- My questions are:
-
- What do I do to prevent TOS writing onto the MINIX file system when
- MiNT is not active?
-
- I am supposed to be able to make large file names with MiNT and MINIX?
- I could'nt find a UNIX like program that would let me have more than the
- TOS sized file names. When I did "touch thisisamintfile" the system locked
- up. No error messages. Maybe the program could be slow, but I waited about
- 10 minutes for it to complete. I thought that "touch" would be extremely
- fast.
-
- Use the ICDFMT.PRG partition program, what should I set in the "TYPE"
- field. I know that in real MINIX I should somehow make the partition
- unavailable to TOS only. How do I make a partition MiNT accessable and
- not TOS accessable?
-
- System Information: TOS 1.0 / 4Mb RAM / 193 Mbyte hard drive / ICD controller
- / 1 embedded SCSI drive / 1 Adaptec RLL drive / Empty AUTO folder / No
- Accessories except TOSWIN when running MiNT
-
- Does anyone know is TOS 2.06 is a good system for running MiNT? I want
- to either get TOS 2.06 or NeoDesk 3.x. My TOS 1.0 and NeoDesk 2.05
- combination just doesn't cut it.
-
- Does anyone know is Universal Item Selector III is supposed to work with
- MiNT? I have tried many kinds of AUTO folder combinations to get UIS III
- to work, but the configuration usually bombs upon the first call of the
- Item Selector.
- --
- Mark Lehmann Senior Texas A&M University
- lehmann@cs.tamu.edu UPE Honor Society - Vice President
-