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From: umbaugh@hcx (Dr David L. Umbaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: booting Minix from 3.5" floppy
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Date: 22 Sep 89 18:40:27 GMT
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Somebody writes:
   What I did when I made a 3.5" boot image to a 720K 3.5" disk was this.  The
   system configuration was as follows...

   Drive A:    CMS (Epson) 1.2 Mb 5.25" drive
   Drive B:    Mitsumi 720K 3.5" drive

   I went to the makefile that makes the image and set the destination
   to image to /dev/at1.  Worked perfectly.  I don't know if anybody
   has gotten to work 100% of the time much less boot from them.  But
   I can tell you that if you're using a compatable controller, making
   a 720K 3.5" boot disk is simple.
But if the drives are reversed (drive 0 is 3.5") and the system boots
only from hard drive or floppy drive 0 you need a 3.5" bootdisk to
even get started.  Then, its not so easy.  

     * ARPA  : crash!pnet01!jca@nosc.mil
     * INET  : jca@pnet01.cts.com
     * UUCP  : {nosc ucsd hplabs!hd-sdd}!crash!pnet01!jca

L. David Umbaugh (Dave)
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