Hi,

In fact the subject says it all

I've been able to get the minix demo disk from plains

also the different Image for linux

I was able to rawrite them on floppy quite easily. In fact the problems arised

when i wanted to put linux on my hd:

I used a 386Sx with 2Mo Ram, and 2 HD

the first one is a 120Meg, and the second one a 40Meg

The big one is a single partionned disk under DRDOS 5.0

The other is a 3 partitionned one
Using Minix I've tried mkfs /dev/hdX with Xgreater than 5

the only reponse i got was/is

no space on root device 1/0

Error: file system is too big for minor device

Line 1 being processed when error detected
Oh, the number after /dev/hdX was computed as in the manual of the demo

disk of minix 1.5
On the other hand I've tried under linux the

cat /dev/hdx for x in 0...9

some accesses were refused (since the partition does not exist)

cat worked on hd0, hd4, hd5, hd8, hd9           
Question : Am I supposed to patiotion my first disk in 4?
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This seems like the error which happens when there is no /dev/hd?

special device, in which case the minix demo will make a normal file on

the root-device, filling it up totally. Thus the "no space on root

device".
What does "ls -l /dev/hd*" give you under demo-minix? Are all the listed

files block devices? I haven't used the minix demo for a long time -

could it be that it doesn't support hd5-9? I guess I'll have to make a

mkfs for linux in the near future, and make a new root-image with it, so
Don't use /dev/hd4 - that's probably your big DOS partition (and I doubt

you want to write over that?).  Also *never* use /dev/hd0, /dev/hd5,

they aren't partitions at all, but the raw disk. 
The partitions on your second drive are probably called /dev/hd6 and

/dev/hd7 under minix, /dev/hd8 and /dev/hd9 under linux.  I don't see

why "mkfs /dev/hd6 blocks-in-partition" wouldn't work unless the

demo-minix cannot access the second harddisk. Some clever person used

minix/DOS to write some easily distinguishable string at the start of a

partition, and then "cat /dev/hdX" to find out what the partition

numbering was under minix/linux. A good idea.
		Linus