Subject: FAQ and a true story Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1991 13:17:14 CST From: Patrick L. McGillan <pmcgilla@hp.uwsuper.edu>
Hi All,
First of all since my real job is administrator of a multi-server Novell
network, I need my DOS. So, I backed up my 70 meg drive and used fdisk
to create a bootable 20 meg partition and a 50 meg partition. After
booting back up with dos I reformatted the partition and placed a system
there then restore 20 meg worth of stuff. I am using Microsoft DOS 5.0,
by the way and would not give it up for anything.
Next, I downloaded from plains the demo_dsk.ibm file along with rawrite
and used that to create a bootable minix1.5 disk. Yes, rawrite can be
used to write any kind of file to a disk, just follow the prompts.
Using minix I wrote 50 meg fs to /dev/hd2 and then quit.
I then used my linux boot, made the same way as the minix boot, and booted
up the compter to the insert root system disk. Inserted said disk and let
it mount and I was up and running. Mounted /dev/hd2 to user and copied
over the stuff from the floppy root disk.
Back to DOS, and changed the bootimag file as per instructions so that it
would acces the hard disk upon bootup. Made a new boot disk and tried it.
Now when the boot disk finished reading it mounted the hd partition as the
root, mucho faster.
I then used the mread program to copy over all the *.tar files from the dos
partition on the hard disk. No problem! Untarred all the files to whatever
directories they wanted to go to.
Question 1 - after untarring the gccbin file into the gccbin directory,
where do I place the individual files so that gcc world.c will compile.
Question 2 - can all the files in the utibin tar file be copied to the
usr/bin file.
Comment 1 - most times when booting linux after running dos I get the
following error when booting the boot image disk.
--begin error--
invalid TSS: 0000
EIP: 0008:00006718
EFLAGS: 00007206
ESP: 000f:00006719
fs: 0010
base: 00000000, limit: 000A0000
Pid: 0, process nr: 0
cf b8 17 00 00 00 66 8e d8 66
Kernel panic: Trying to free up swapper memory
in swapper task - not syncing
---end error---
A second three finger salute will always work.
Comment 2 - rarely but it does happen, I will get the following error after
putting the root disk in drive a (when using the floppy root)
--begin error--
floppy I/O error
dev 0208, block 1
Kernel panic: Unable to mount root
--end error--
Well that's all got to say and would some please send back the
answers to my two questions.
-- Patrick L. McGillan Computer Systems Specialist University Of Wisconsin Ph: (715) 394-8191 Superior, Wisconsin pmcgilla@uwsuper.edu