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From: cechew@bruce.OZ (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How to use a hard disk with Minix
Message-ID: <1723@bruce.OZ>
Date: 30 Nov 89 00:29:37 GMT
References: <89332.220027TAR@MAINE.BITNET>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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From article <89332.220027TAR@MAINE.BITNET>, by TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds):
:     WHY BOTHER?? Minix is just a small Unix system, and at present cannot be
: made to match Xenix or any other Unix sytem. It's just an alternate op sys.
: It wouldn't be worth  the hassle. And besides, if you are running DOS and you
: do configure Minix for boot off hdisk, you will have to boot DOS off floppy.
:     The Moral: You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Wrong. You can have your cake and eat it too :-). ShoeLace will be posted
soon. It will allow you to select which partition to boot. It will allow you to
boot Minix from hard disk.

Earl

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Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168
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