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From: schimmel@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (John E. Schimmel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix on a Packard Bell?
Summary: Has anybody done this?
Keywords: High Density Disks, Uncompatible
Message-ID: <782@cogsci.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 5 Oct 89 00:38:53 GMT
Reply-To: schimmel@cogsci.UUCP (John E. Schimmel)
Distribution: usa
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Institute for Cognitive Science
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Hello,  I am new to the wonderfull world of Minix so am sorry if
this has come up before.

I baught Minix for my 12Mhz Packard Bell 286, but it won't boot.
I get an error reading the disk.  I assume this is due to one of
two reasons:  either my packard bell is not IBM compatible enough,
or the boot code in Minix doesn't know about 1.2m floppy drives.

Anyway, I would very much like to hack on this so if anyone has
done this, or knows how I could go about getting this puppy to boot,
please send me e-mail.

Thank you.

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