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From: pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How to use a hard disk with Minix
Message-ID: <538@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Date: 11 Dec 89 13:54:53 GMT
References: <1738@bruce.OZ>
Organization: RT6115, BTRL, Martlesham Heath, England
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[loads of bits about booting minix deleted]

ST Minix comes with a TOS program called "MINIX" that takes an image of
the boot floppy called MINIX.IMG and boots from it. Why cant someone
adapt it to work on a PC ?

I boot off hard disk into a shell, and if I want MINIX I just type "minix"
and up it comes. I am adapting it to go straight into minix at bootup and
only into TOS if the t key is pressed or something.

No hassle.

I use a 5Meg /dev/hd3 as / and a 15meg /dev/hd4 as /usr - they are of
partition type MIX and therefore cannot be got at from the desktop.

Why cant this be done on a PC ?

-Pete.

-- 
       -Pete French.               | "The rhythm's gone,
  British Telecom Research Labs.   |  The radio's dead.
 Martlesham Heath, East Anglia.    |  And the damage done,
All my own thoughts (of course)    |  Inside my head."