Re: Elks Distribution

neil.holmes
2002-05-30T19:35:07Z

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 <rhw@InfraDead.Org>:

> 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.
>
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