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From: jpainter@tjp.East.Sun.COM (John Painter - Sun BOS Hardware)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: booting Minix from 3.5" floppy
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Date: 19 Sep 89 00:28:31 GMT
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In article <24276@louie.udel.EDU> dobson@usuhsb.ucc.usuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (BCP) writes:
>Has anyone successfully created a 3.5" boot disk for other than the PS/2?
>I have a 386 clone with an ELT motherboard and a 1.44M 3.5" floppy as the 
>boot floppy drive that I would like to be able to run Minix on.  I have

I have Minix running on a DFI 286 clone-of-an-AT board.  1 meg of memory
(now that it is cheap again) and 1 3.5 inch floppy and one 1.2 meg 5.25 inch
floppy.  I just tested the 3.5 inch under Minix this weekend.  I had been
using a toshiba 720k floppy, but changed over to a 1.44M (teac) drive this
weekend.  All works as expected.  Award BIOS is on the mother board.  I did
however have problems making a 1.4M filesystem and just made a 1.2 meg one.
As I track down the problem (probably pilot error as I didn't have much
time to test) I'll keep you informed.

P.S. Any mail server Minix archives.  It's tough to FTP from here.

/Tjp
-disclaimer "I love the source ... " (sung to I love New York)