Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!cechew
From: cechew@bruce.OZ (Earl Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How to use a hard disk with Minix
Message-ID: <1749@bruce.OZ>
Date: 12 Dec 89 03:21:13 GMT
References: <538@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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From article <538@galadriel.bt.co.uk>, by pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French):
> ST Minix comes with a TOS program called "MINIX" that takes an image of

The point is that some of us don't want to boot dos, and then subsequently type
`minix'. Besides, then you'd have to have an image of the boot floppy (which is
a data file as opposed to an a.out file [can't even be a .exe file]) on the dos
partition when it should really be in a Minix partition (if you want it at
all).

> 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.

This is the main point. Some of us would like to either boot dos or minix ---
just as you would like to go straight to tos or minix at *boot time*, instead
of booting [td]os then *switching* to minix since this precludes a Minix
*only* (no dos at all) system on the pc.

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