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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix beginner questions
Keywords: 1.3 upgrade, hard disk partition, 1.4 upgrade diffs
Message-ID: <3195@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 Sep 89 20:35:22 GMT
References: <27187@dunkshot.mips.COM>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <27187@dunkshot.mips.COM> jeremy@mips.COM (Jeremy M. Schneider) writes:
>P-H told me that you cannot use the upgrade kit from 1.1 (is that true?), so I 
>am exchanging my 1.1 for a 1.2.
I do wish they wouldn't say things when they don't know what they are
talking about.  You probably talked to a telephone order-taker who wouldn't
know the difference between a real time system and a spreadsheet.  You can
certainly upgrade from 1.1 to 1.3 (also from 1.2 to 1.3).  The upgrade kit
contains all the sources plus the most recent C compiler.  Just boot 1.1,
install the new compiler, and compile all the sources.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)