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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Booting MINIX from a 720K 3.5 floppy
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Date: 17 Mar 90 20:36:01 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA
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The process is simple, but you need a machine with both a 3.5" and 5.25" drive
to do it since Minix is distributed on 5.25" media.

My machine has a 5.25" DS/HD drive and a 3.5" DS/DD drive.  The 3.5" is access
accessed as /dev/at1.  When you go to build the kernel (with surprise, build)
you build it to /dev/at1, not /dev/at0 or /dev/fd0.  I swapped the cable
connections of drive A: and B: and viola, it worked.

A question for the net, could somebody please give me the list of what's on
each 5.25" DS/DD (PC distribution) in terms of files so I can make a 3.5"
master set of 1.3.  I have 1.3 on 5.25" on DS/HD (AT distribution).  Please
send the list in e-mail in some compressed uuencoded format to save space.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
     // JCA

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