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From: "Petr Titěra" <petr@titera.eu>
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>, tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:37:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad3050ac-0ce7-ff76-8292-0767fc23994f@titera.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e33b98d9-24e3-da24-bb2d-92f19cf5174a@tnetconsulting.net>



Dne 17. 7. 2020 v 7:30 Grant Taylor via TUHS napsal(a):
> On 7/15/20 10:17 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
>> Does anyone happen to have copies of H.J. Lu's Bootable Root and the
>> associated Linux Base System disk images from the early '90s?
> 
> I manged to find something after sending the email last night.  But I'm
> having trouble accessing them.  As such, I'm still interested to know if
> other people have a copy.
> 
> I say trouble accessing them because the HJ 0.99pl7 Bootable Root disk
> can't mount the XiaFS base disk images.  Further, when I try to mount
> them from Slackware 3.1 ('96) after loading the XiaFS module, things
> don't work correctly.  df shows that there is different amounts of
> content on the three base disk images.  But doing an ls on the mount
> point returns an error.  (I don't have the error handy.)

There were some inconsistencies with XiaFS at that time. See this note
from release notes:

  NOTE: If you are using this rootdisk for the kernel 0.99 pl7 and
xiafs. you should run "xfsck -a /dev/xxxxx" on your xiafs partitions
after booting this rootdisk from the floppy drive first. After you have
done that, YOU HAVE TO USE THE KERNEL ON THIS DISK TO ACCESS YOUR XIAFS
PARTITIONS. Please read LILO docs for how to do it. You have to use the
kernel built with Frank Xia's patch for 0.99 pl 7, which is appended
below. THIS PATCH IS ONLY NEEDED BY THE KERNEL 0.99 pl 7. DON'T USE IT
ON ANY OTHER KERNELS.

Petr


> > Someone responded to me on Twitter this morning with a link to some
> other files, but I've not yet had an opportunity to try them.
> 
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-17 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-16  4:17 Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17  1:40 ` John Gilmore
2020-07-17  1:59   ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17  3:35     ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17  5:18       ` Random832
2020-07-17 13:12         ` Ron Pool
2020-07-17 23:50         ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-21  4:15           ` tytso
2020-07-21 17:49             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17  5:23       ` Petr Titěra
2020-07-17  5:41         ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17  6:04           ` Petr Titěra
2020-07-17 15:12             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17 17:19               ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17 17:42                 ` [TUHS] Linux on TUHS [was: H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks] salewski
2020-07-17 17:47                   ` Sergio Pedraja
2020-07-17 17:26               ` [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks Warner Losh
2020-07-17 17:50                 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-17 20:16                 ` Petr Titěra
2020-07-17 21:48                 ` A. P. Garcia
2020-07-17 19:46               ` Harald Arnesen
2020-07-17  5:24       ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-17  5:30 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17 20:37   ` Petr Titěra [this message]
2020-07-17 18:16 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-05-18  1:33 ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-21  9:46   ` Sean Dwyer via TUHS
2021-05-26  1:12     ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26  1:34       ` Gregg Levine
2021-05-26  2:53         ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26  6:06       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-05-26  7:03         ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26  7:37           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-05-26  7:45             ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26  7:51               ` arnold
2021-05-26  7:56               ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-05-26 14:58                 ` Clem Cole
2021-05-26 18:12                   ` Jason Stevens
2021-05-26 23:29                     ` Chris Torek
2021-05-26 14:06               ` Al Kossow
2021-05-26 14:25                 ` Larry McVoy
2021-05-26 14:57               ` Clem Cole
2020-07-17 18:08 Norman Wilson
2020-07-17 18:14 ` John Cowan
2020-07-17 18:19 ` Larry McVoy

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