Re: [MiNT] update on my situation

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > Currently, I use a small Minix partition, because the Ext2 tools
> > refuse to work as simple TTP.  It seems they require real CLI.
> 
> The most common problem is that the desktop doesn't properly fill the
> argument vector of programs (i. e. argv[0] is NULL). Apart from that (and
> maybe missing envariables) there is no difference between TTP and
> invocation from a shell.

Well, minit would not work as a TTP, actually. I had to start
TosWinII and use it from there.

> Frank, have you tested if the tools run under plain TOS?

Indeed, have you?

> > Something new:   MinixFS 0.71 constantly reports block_IO errors
> > or "inode not written when drive free" (or something), whenever 
> > I copy large directories containing many files.  The strange
> > thing is this version _used_ to work flawlessly, on my old setup.
> 
> I got messages like that too, but they occured depending on the hard disk
> and not depending on Minix or MiNT version.

Can you explain?  Cause, before it died, my 1 GB was initialized
using the same Minit with Minix 0.71 and it was completely stable.

The current problem happened sometimes on that setup, but not
as systematicaly as on the new one.

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