Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!decwrl!ucbvax!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!hpsad!walter From: walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: booting minix on 3.5 disks (actually sun386i) Message-ID: <590007@hpsad.HP.COM> Date: 26 Jul 89 00:49:13 GMT References: <20344@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: HP Signal Analysis Div - Rohnert Park, CA Lines: 6 This might not be applicable, since I know nothing about Suns, but her it is: It was very easy to make a bootable copy of Minix for my Toshiba 1000 (fairly PC compatible laptop with a single 720K disk). I attached a 360k 5 1/2 and used DOS DISKCOPY (might have been COPYDISK, I get the 2 confused) to copy the Minix discs track for track to the 720K. Sounds too easy, but it worked for this particular combination.