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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX for the Atari ST - Installation Help
Summary: read the manual it explanes all
Keywords: minix, help, os, Atari ST
Message-ID: <777@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 16:20:12 GMT
References: <1812@sactoh0.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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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?  If so, can I still make back-up
> copies?  Some of the disks when I open them, show no files,
> others show greek-like characters for file names, and the number
> of bytes is larger than is possible to get on a floppy disk.  Are
> my disks bad?  Should I contact Prentice-Hall about it?   Any help
> would sure be appreciated.   
What you get are TOS copyable disks.  the rest is MINIX disk
format which is not TOS interpretable.

Thus, you can use the A: to B: copy because the 'boot' block is faked
to look like TOS.  But there are no TOS filesystems, only a minix file
system.

Boot the root disk, and follow instructions.  all will be well.


Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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