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From: TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How to use a hard disk with Minix
Message-ID: <89334.224050TAR@MAINE.BITNET>
Date: 1 Dec 89 03:40:50 GMT
References: <89332.220027TAR@MAINE.BITNET> <1723@bruce.OZ>
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In article <1723@bruce.OZ>, cechew@bruce.OZ (Earl Chew) says:
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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.
>

    You don't NEED shoelace to do that. Any fdisk (Minix or MS-DOS) will allow
you to select the active partition. The point is, you would have a very funny
setup if you booted off the hard disk. Minix needs to load the ramdisk, and
having THAT on hdisk would just mean duplicate roots. Plus, the bootblock is
NOT compatible with Minix data (i.e., it MUST be on a seperate disk). Having
a teeny-tiny partition on your hdisk for the bootblok is rather silly, don't
you think?
        The Moral: No, you cannot have your cake and eat it too,
                   even if the cake is called ShoeLace.
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