probing = 1;
autopartmode = 1;
- printf("\n\n --- Step 2.1 --- Select drive ---------------------------------------\n\n");
+ printf("\n\n --- Step 2.1 --- Select drive and region -----------------------------\n\n");
do {
curdev = select_disk();
memcpy(orig_table, table, sizeof(table));
do {
- printf("\n\n --- Step 2.2 --- Select region to install in ------------------------\n\n");
+ printf("\n\n --- Step 2.1 --- Select drive and region -----------------------------\n\n");
/* Show regions. */
r = select_region();
} while(!r); /* Back to step 2. */
- printf("\n\n --- Step 2.3 --- Write table to disk --------------------------------\n\n");
+ printf("\n\n --- Step 2.2 --- Confirm your choice ---------------------------------\n\n");
/* Write things. */
if(scribble_region(r, &pe)) {
while [ "$ok" = "" ]
do
echo "
- --- Step 2 --- Partitioning -----------------------------------------
+ --- Step 2 --- Create a MINIX 3 partition ---------------------------
"
echo -n "Now is the MINIX 3 partitioning step. Do you want to
follow the (A)utomatic or the e(X)pert mode? [A] "
echo $i
}
echo "
- --- Step 3 --- Networking -------------------------------------------
+ --- Step 3 --- Select your Ethernet chip ----------------------------
"
# Ask user about networking
blockdefault=8
echo "
- --- Step 4 --- Block size -------------------------------------------
+ --- Step 4 --- Select a disk block size -----------------------------
"
echo "\
The default block size on the disk is $blockdefault KB.
blocksizebytes="`expr $blocksize '*' 1024`"
echo "
- --- Step 5 --- Swap space -------------------------------------------
+ --- Step 5 --- Allocate swap space ----------------------------------
"
echo -n "
How much swap space would you like? Swapspace is only needed if this
-system is memory starved, like a 16-bit system with less then 2M, or a
-32-bit system with less then 4M.
+system is memory starved. If you have 256 MB of memory or more, you
+probably don't need it. If you have less and want to run many programs
+at once, I suggest setting it to the memory size.
Size in kilobytes? [$swapadv] "
fi
echo "
- --- Step 6 --- Copy files -------------------------------------------
+ --- Step 6 --- Copy files to hard disk ------------------------------
"
mkfs -B $blocksizebytes /dev/$usr
rm -rf $RELEASEDIR $ISO $IMAGE $ROOTIMAGE $ISOGZ $CDFILES
mkdir -p $CDFILES || exit
mkdir -p $RELEASEDIR
-mkfs -b 1440 -B 1024 $RAM || exit
+mkfs -b 16384 -B 1024 $RAM || exit
echo " * chowning to bin"
chown -R bin /usr/src
echo " * mounting $RAM as $RELEASEDIR"