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- From: rb420@rbhp17.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Chris Vetter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Minix/MiNT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.104936.10381@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 10:49:36 GMT
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- In article <1112@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, anisko@usdtsg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (anisko) writes:
- |>
- |> I have a very basic question regarding Minix/Mint. First what exactly
- |> is Minix (my assumption is it gets you around the filename.ext filename
- |> limit, but what else). Also, is it shareware/pd or commercial? And
- |> how would one create a "minix partition" and access it? Thanks...
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- Absolutely not!
- MinT was, originally, a multitasking (X)BIOS & GEMDOS for TOS. ATARI used this as platform for
- MultiTOS.
- MINIX is a complete different OS much UNIX alike (i.e. System 7). Thus, it is possible to
- have more than 8+3 chars and as much as '.' you like for yer file.
- As far as I know, it is commercial, but I guess the updates are free in every meaning...
- To create a partition, pre-format yer disc under TOS and part' it as you like, reboot (MINIX)
- and type (e.g.) /etc/mkfs /dev/hd1 1024
- that means "make filesystem on device hd1 (i.e. partition 1 = c) with 1024 Bytes"
- U see it is similar to UNIX we use here, except pre-formatting using TOS.
-
- sincerely,
- Chris
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