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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!tous!bilver!jwt!minor!fpp
- From: fpp@minor.UUCP (Frank Pursel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Progress on 1.6.16, 1.6.23??
- Keywords: MINIX, upgrade, ftp
- Message-ID: <9211161186@minor.UUCP>
- Organization: UUCP
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 01:17:21 +0100
- Lines: 31
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- Hello net people,
-
- I've made headway on my upgrade to 1.6.16. The reason build was not
- finding the kernel data space magic number was that the size of my
- bootblok was wrong. I doctored the Makefile for bootblok and now things
- seem OK. However, in the interest of completeness I must note that I did
- not get the same eight words at the start of the bootblok specified in the
- Makefile. They were almost the same, but I had a 31 where a 33 was specified.
- I'm hoping that this is not a fatal problem.
-
- Alas, now I have a new problem. Build now tells me it cannot find the
- data segment magic number for the memory manager. An octal dump has
- deepened the mystery; I can't locate 0xDADA, O332 O332, anywhere! This has
- me stumped. I'm using the ANSI compiler. Can anyone give me a reason why
- the memory manager and file system would compile sucessfully with an I&D
- space but not have 0xDADA anywhere? Just because I'm dumb, I'll also
- ask what part of the code causes the magic number assigned to the kernel to
- be different from the one used in mm and fs? One thing I haven't looked at
- yet, strange word splits. Could 0xDADA be split into xyDA DAyz?
-
- On a totally new note. Someday I'd like to complete an upgrade to 1.6.23.
- Where can I get it. Will it soon be on plains.nodak.edu? If not, I know
- someone will suggest ftp from somewhere. OK, I'll bite, I have access to
- UUCP and therefore the internet, but have no idea how to ftp something without
- and interactive internet connection. Any suggestions? Is there a way to
- use 'uux' to obtain ftp'ed files?
-
- I hope the solution to my old problem helps someone else.
-
- Thanks,
- Frank Pursel peora!jwt!minor!fpp
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