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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX for the Atari ST - Installation Help
Keywords: minix, help, os, Atari ST
Message-ID: <3204@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 11 Sep 89 09:37:05 GMT
References: <1812@sactoh0.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1812@sactoh0.UUCP> dave@sactoh0.UUCP (David M. Schwartz) writes:
>I just purchased MINIX for the ATARI ST and think I may have a
>problem with the disks.  I purchased it from Prentice-Hall.  Of
>the 9 disks, only the one marked 08.TOS can be read from the 
>desktop.  Is this normal?  

The disks come with a 62 page instruction manual with a nice coffee-resistant
plasticized cover.  Read it.  At the top of page 4 it clearly states that
only one of the disks is readable under TOS.  The rest are MINIX file systems
and can only be copied using MINIX.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)