Please clarify these instructions!

Well, I think I finally figured out how to install QNX 4.25 on a 2nd 2GB hard drive in my Windows XP box. The instructions I am using are below. However, can you please clarify the instructions in [color=red]RED for me. Comments from me are in [color=green]GREEN. I need to know if I only need to type in the commands that are given, or if I actually need to edit that make_links file and add those lines. I don’t quite understand what they are telling me. And if I do need to edit that file, how do I edit it? vedit isn’t working for me:

[color=blue]Title: How to install QNX4 onto a second drive
Ref. No: QNX.000003955
Category(ies): Installation, Configuration
Issue: We are trying to install QNX4 on a PC which has two hard drives. We would like to install on the 2GB second drive.

The install program keeps on checking the first hard drive only (/dev/hd0) while we would like to install on /dev/hd1. Is there a way to install the QNX4 to the second drive?

Solution # Any part of this doc preceeded by a ‘#’ is a comment not a command to type in

The following steps allow you to create the QNX system on hd1 (drive D: in DOS)

instead of the standard hd0 (drive C: in DOS)

Note: BIOS only allows bootable partitions on fd0 and hd0, if you insist on installing QNX on another drive you must have a loader that can handle other drives, use a boot floppy, or set up a small 2Meg partition where you can put the bootable image which will mount the second hard-drive as /.

The QNX loader can not handle booting off of other drives!

Good Luck

0. Boot from the QNX Install Boot floppy

This sets up a limited number of utilities on a RAM disk (/ram) that allow

you to create the system.

If you are installing onto hd0, the standard install script should suffice

1. Creating a QNX HardDisk Partition

First determine the interface for Fsys to use

/bin/disktrap

Start the filesystem using the command returned by disktrap

Fsys.eide

Optional informational steps

fdisk /dev/hd1 QUERY FREE
fdisk /dev/hd1 QUERY QNX

Create a partition for QNX to live in

fdisk /dev/hd1

2. Initializing the QNX File System

mount the harddrive as a block-special device

mount -p /dev/hd1

Note there are a series of steps that should be skipped if

you are only updating files, but wish to keep your established

setup (including your sysinit.node files and boot images)

These steps will be marked with the following comment

DO NOT PERFORM ON UPDATE, NEW INSTALL ONLY

Initialize the structures (FAT) on the disk for the QNX filesystem

The t77 stands for the QNX type partition(type 77) as shown by the

fdisk utility

DO NOT PERFORM ON UPDATE, NEW INSTALL ONLY

dinit -hq /dev/hd1t77

mount the harddisk into the filesystem as the /hd “directory”

mount /dev/hd1t77 /hd

Check the empty harddrive for bad blocks (physical imperfections)

This is not inherently dangerous to your filesystem, but is usually

skipped in upgrades because it takes a while to complete

DO NOT PERFORM ON UPDATE, NEW INSTALL ONLY

dcheck -m /dev/hd1t77

3. Copying files from floppies to harddisk

Install the new licence

/ram/license -q /dev/fd0 /hd/etc/licenses

Decompress and install all the files

vol -b15360 -r /dev/fd0 | melt | pax -rv -s,^/,/hd/,

4. Making QNX boot from the harddisk

Even if you are booting from a floppy, if this is the only complete QNX

installation that your computer can depend on permanently having access

to, DO THIS ANYWAY. It won’t hurt your booting sequence, you set the

partition to boot from earlier with fdisk, and you need these links.

I really don’t know what this does, but it must be done

I think that it just sets up the next few commands

install_setup

[color=red]# Change the prefix for the harddrive so that it is root (/) or the

following commands will fail

/hd/bin/prefix -R /=/hd/ [color=green](Do I just type this command, or do I need to replace “prefix” with something, or what?)

[color=red]# Edit the make_links file, both the 32 and 16-bit

Device managers are supported, you must add the lines to

distinguish which ones you want to use.

ADD TO THE END OF THE /etc/make_links FILE

/bin/ln -fs /bin/Dev32 /bin/Dev
/bin/ln -fs /bin/Dev32.ansi /bin/Dev.ansi
/bin/ln -fs /bin/Dev32.ser /bin/Dev.ser
/bin/ln -fs /bin/Dev32.par /bin/Dev.par
/bin/ln -fs /bin/Dev32.pty /bin/Dev.pty
[color=green](I don’t really understand what I’m supposed to do at the above step. Do I need to edit that file to add those lines, and if so, how?)

[color=red]# Set up the standard alias’ by running the script:
/etc/make_links

[color=blue]# Compile the terminal information
tic /usr/lib/terminfo/terminfo.src

Compile and Link the boot image

make b=hard.1 d=Fsys.eide h=/dev/hd1 t=t77

Copy the boot image into the root directory, and rename it .boot

DO NOT PERFORM ON UPDATE, NEW INSTALL ONLY

cp -t images/hard.1 /.boot

Query the boot loader on the harddrive and ignore all the output

(?)

DO NOT PERFORM ON UPDATE, NEW INSTALL ONLY

fdisk /dev/hd1 QUERY BOOTLOADER > /dev/null

Have fdisk install the QNX loader and make the QNX partition bootable

This could be done manually too from within fdisk.

DO NOT PERFORM ON UPDATE, NEW INSTALL ONLY

fdisk /dev/hd1 LOADER BOOT QNX

5. Create a system initialization (sysinit) file

This is well documented in the QNX Installation and Configuration Guide

A relatively standard sysinit file follows; You really ought to have

a copy of the file as sysinit.node, where node is the node number of the

computer. Make any changes in the sysinit.node file and you will always

have a good sysinit to fall back on ( It defaults to the standard sysinit

if you press for the alternate boot at boot time)

TZ=utc00
rtc -l hw
Dev &
Dev.con -n 4 &
reopen
Dev.ser &
Dev.par &
emu87 &
netmap -f
tinit -t /dev/con1 -T /dev/con[2-4] &

Note: This sysinit is far from complete, there are many other processes

that you might wish to automatically start at boot time. For example,

to enable QNX networking you can add the following before the netmap statement:

Net &
Net.ether1000 &

Net.ether1000 is the driver for NE1000/2000 ethernet cards. To detect the driver

type for a different type of card, run the following:

/bin/nettrap query

When you reboot, the system will be fully setup.

ALSO: Customers have reported success when using the newest Partition Magic with Windows 98 on one drive and QNX4 on the other.

Ok, I figured out I have to be in the vedit directory to edit the make_links file, but I still can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong here:

Whenever I get to this step:

# Compile and Link the boot image
make b=hard.1 d=Fsys.eide h=/dev/hd1 t=t77

I enter that command and it gives me: “make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.”

Any idea what I’m doing wrong here?

I thought this was going to be an easy question!