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From: aubrey@rpp386.cactus.org (Aubrey McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Booting MINIX from a 720K 3.5 floppy
Message-ID: <18153@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 17 Mar 90 03:44:45 GMT
References: <13990@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: aubrey@rpp386.UUCP (Aubrey McIntosh)
Organization: vima, Austin TX
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In article <13990@nigel.udel.EDU> SYJXN%NASAGISS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jim Newell) writes:
>
>  Has anyone tried to boot MINIX from a 3.5 in floppy, or does anyone
>know how to make a boot disk on a 3.5 in floppy. I need to run it on
>my laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I do this daily on my XT running 1.5.3.  I plugged a Toshiba drive in the
drive A (/dev/fd0) slot.  With 1.5.x, I just let the makefile do its thing,
no special action whatsoever.  I do have a special entries, 
  /dev/350 to tell mkfs and such that there are 1440 blocks on the device.

I freely copy between the 360k on /fd1 and the 720 when I rebuild and feel
a need for backups (or restores :-) ).

Long ago, in 1.1, there were more details.  But I used the 3.5" drive as
a 360k floppy with no special action while I built up to the fix.

There is message traffic re difficulties with a 1.44 M floppy.  This would
require a special controller (hardware...$) in the xt environment, so I am
only speaking to the 720k drive.


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