From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: neil.holmes@zoom.co.uk Subject: Re: Elks Distribution Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 20:35:07 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1022787307.3cf67eeb1541d@webmail2.zoom.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Riley Williams Cc: Linux 8086 I may have caused confusion here. I have, indeed, been using type 81 for my fs type. I had problems early on, I thought with type 80, and slipped into using 81 back then. 81 has been working fine for me. If 80 is what it should be then I will revisit this area and make the necessary amendments. Sorry if I have caused some confusion. Neil Quoting Riley Williams : > Hi Stefan. > > > I tryed type 80 do, but it gets an not minix fs too. Some other > > person helped me with changing the scripts (mounting the image as > > loopback device), cause it maybe had something to do with the > > harddisk itself, i got thru the installation with a harddisksize of > > 5,5mb but the thing wouldn't unmount and ended up in errors. We > > modified the scripts so that we could manually could unmount & cat > > the bootsector, but machine didn't liked it... I didn't fdisk in > > DOS... but if needed, i will do this. Btw in the documents of Neil > > is type 81 used instand of type 80. > > Here's the table from the fdisk source in the elkscmd package: > > " 0 Empty 3c PartitionMagic recovery 85 Linux > extended\n" > " 1 FAT12 40 Venix 80286 86 NTFS volume > set\n" > " 2 XENIX root 41 PPC PReP Boot 87 NTFS volume > set\n" > " 3 XENIX usr 42 SFS 93 Amoeba\n" > " 4 FAT16 <32M 4d QNX4.x 94 Amoeba BBT\n" > " 5 Extended 4e QNX4.x 2nd part a0 IBM Thinkpad > hibernate\n" > " 6 FAT16 4f QNX4.x 3rd part a5 BSD/386\n" > " 7 HPFS/NTFS 50 OnTrack DM a6 OpenBSD\n" > " 8 AIX 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux1 a7 NeXTSTEP\n" > " 9 AIX bootable 52 CP/M b7 BSDI fs\n" > " a OS/2 Boot Manager 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 b8 BSDI swap\n" > " b Win9x FAT32 54 OnTrack DM6 c1 DR-DOS/sec > FAT-12\n" > " c Win9x FAT32 (LBA) 55 EZ-Drive c4 DR-DOS/sec > FAT-16 <32M\n" > " e Win9x FAT16 (LBA) 56 Golden Bow c6 DR-DOS/sec > FAT-16\n" > " f Win9x Extended (LBA) 5c Priam Edisk c7 Syrinx\n" > "10 OPUS 61 SpeedStor db CP/M / CTOS / > ...\n" > "11 Hide FAT12 63 GNU HURD or SysV e1 DOS access\n" > "12 Compaq diagnostics 64 Novell Netware 286 e3 DOS R/O\n" > "14 Hide FAT16 <32M 65 Novell Netware 386 e4 SpeedStor\n" > "16 Hide FAT16 70 DiskSecure Multi-Boot eb BeOS fs\n" > "17 Hide HPFS/NTFS 75 PC/IX f1 SpeedStor\n" > "18 AST Windows swapfile 80 ELKS / Old Minix f2 DOS > secondary\n" > "1b Hide Win9x FAT32 81 New Minix / Old Linux f4 SpeedStor\n" > "1c Hide Win9x FAT32 (LBA) 82 Linux swap fd Linux raid > autodetect\n" > "1e Hide Win9x FAT16 (LBA) 83 New Linux fe LANstep\n" > "24 NEC DOS 84 OS/2 Hide C: ff BBT\n" > > I synchronised that against the Linux fdisk a while back, using the > table included in the fdisk distributed with Red Hat Linux 6.2. The > format used by ELKS for the minixfs file system is that referred to as > "ELKS / Old Minix" in the above table, type 80, and has the same 32M > limit. > > The type 81 (New Minix) filesystem apparently has several restrictions > relaxed, not least the restrictions of not more than 256 users and > groups. My understanding is that elksfs was supposed to be an > implementation of the "New Minix" file system, but was never finished. > > Best wishes from Riley. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo- info.html > Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/