From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Neil Holmes" Subject: Elks Distribution Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:17:04 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux 8086 Hi Everyone, I have been playing around with Elks for a few months now and have built an 80286 system happily booting and running from its hard drive. The system is 0.1.0 but I have had horrendous problems trying to get through the fdisk/mkfs/mount stage of the hard disk install. I got there in the end but I am still not quite sure how. It usually looked ok until I tried to mount the filesystem. I then got a none minix file system error. I have noticed that this is not an issue on older releases - for instance 0.0.82. Are there any fixes around for this that I may be missing ? As I say. Its running now but I still suffer from the problem elsewhere as I detail further down. I have also been playing with Elks in PocketDos on a HP Jornada 690. Not too far into that yet but all seems to be fine. I haven't got to 0.1.0 here yet. I have now moved onto looking for some sort of a challenge for myself that I may be able to contribute to the project. My C skills are not to the standard of the majority of the contributors here. Hence I am not so comfortable at low levels. I noticed, though, in the documentation that Question 1.3 says "Are there any ready-to-run distributions of ELKS". The answer says no and goes on to invite interest to build something. Is this still the case ? Are there no distributions ? During the course of my experimenting I have been playing with scripts that install ELKS to the hard drive from a root and boot floppy. I guess this is the start of a distribution ? My current script will only run, so far, into /dev/bda1. It was devised as a way to save me some time really. I am currently trying to persuade my script to setup the hard drive to boot. I did it manually so I expect I will soon have it working from my install routine too. In due course I may well re-write the script in, perhaps C ? I would also like to make the Install Floppy Disk be for a 0.1.0 system but the problems that I outlined at the head of this message prevent that just now. Is what I have been up to of interest. Maybe good for less technical people who want a first look at Elks ? Have fun ! (I am) Neil