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- From: dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn)
- Subject: Re: Misc. AmigaMINIX questions
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.023303.28926@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
- References: <Btx307.ELF@cs.vu.nl> <1992Sep1.062241.5410@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 02:33:03 GMT
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- In article <Btx307.ELF@cs.vu.nl>, sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Reiz Steven) writes:
- >
- >dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn) writes:
- >
- >These problems (specially Elvis crashing with exceptions), sound like the
- >binaries may be corrupted. Have you tried the original binaries from floppy?
- >
-
- I thought this was probably the case.
- I'll recopy the binaries from the original disks -
- hmmm, thought I'd done this...
-
- >For 1.5.10.1 you just need the boot disk. The patch tarfile contains, besides
- >Makedev and format, only source patches.
- >
-
- Right.
-
- >For 1.5.10.2 you can also just use the new boot disk, but to have full use of
- >the virtual consoles you'll have to edit a file on the root filesystem
- >(/etc/ttys, I think). You don't have to recompile, because the binaries
- >are included (actually just minix.img).
- >
-
- Thanks for the help.
-
- Regards...
-
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- dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au
- David Benn - Applied Computing, University of Tasmania at Launceston.
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