home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!sreiz
- From: sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: AmigaMINIX floppy problems
- Message-ID: <15839@star.cs.vu.nl>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 15:56:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug22.014026.25462@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Lines: 12
-
- dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn) writes:
-
- >Oh, BTW, can someone give me an answer to the question I posed last time
- >about how to get Minix to accept the ROOT and /usr disks in a different
- >drive at boot time? The prompt for the ROOT disk says that the bootdev can
- >be specified. Does this mean just another disk apart from ROOT in dd0? Or
- >can I specify the 2nd or 3rd disk drive...?
-
- You can specify the major and minor device numbers, where major device 2
- is the floppy drives, e.g. 2,8 is /dev/dd0, 2,9 is /dev/dd1.
-
- Steven
-