Re: [rtl] minirtl on ide

[Ramesh K <kram@rri.res.in>]

Hi,
	I'm also trying to put miniRTL on IDE. I'm stuck at the very first
step!
	My hard-disk (hda) has an ext2 filesystem. I would like to know if
I can make an msdos fs on hda1 without affecting the present system. I had
checked cfdisk, fdisk and sfdisk utilities, but I'm missing something. Can
you please help?
	Thanks in advance.

Regards
Ramesh

> > I'm trying to put minirtl on an ide disk.
>
> boot it from the floppy, then
>
> 1) create a 2MB msdos fs on /dev/hda1
> 2) create a 4MB++ minix fs on /dev/hda2
>
> put the image file from the floppy on /dev/hda1
>
> this system can now boot from ide into a RAMDISK
>
> to now put it on the IDE disk so that it will actually run
> from the IDE.
>
> 1) boot the system into ramdisk
> 2) upload a default version of cp (the one from busybox laks the -R flag)
> 3) mount the minix partition under /mnt
> 4) cd /
> 5) cp -pRd * /mnt (excluding /mnt naturally...)


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