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.

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Patrick L. McGillan
Computer Systems Specialist
University Of Wisconsin     Ph:  (715) 394-8191
Superior, Wisconsin         pmcgilla@uwsuper.edu