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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: booting minix on 3.5 disks (actually sun386i)
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Date: 24 Jul 89 15:23:10 GMT
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I'm trying to boot Minix on my sun386i (without much success so far).

I have a method to copy the release 5 1/4" disks onto my sun workstation as
a disk image (sequence of bytes).

The sun386i has 3 1/2 floppy disks (1.44 megabytes).

It high density media (2.0 Megabytes) work at 1.44 megabytes but not a 720K
bytes.

What steps need to be taken to build a bootable release for 3 1/2" disks
from 5 1/4" disks.  I really don't know much about these 3 1/2" disks (I've
seen various diffs to the floppy drivers).

Do I have to make a current kernel + bootdisk (i.e. 1.3d) before I can have
a bootable 3 1/2" image.

Any help is appreciated (i.e. anyone else out there who has done this?).
 
marty
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