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From: pcolsen@super.ORG (Peter C Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: The Upgrade Process
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Date: 22 Mar 90 23:51:39 GMT
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I am one of the people who dropped out of the upgrade process along
the way.

I purchased Milast year to experiment at home when my employer shifted
to Unix.  While Minix 1.2 works fine from floppies, it will not
recognize my hard disk.  Without a hard disk, I soon reached the limit
of what I could do.  While I have a substantial amount of work I'd
{\em like} to do under Minix, I can't do it on floppies, and I have no
confidence that --- if I am able to complete an upgrade --- I will be
able to use my hard disk with the upgraded version.  I am an
applications programmer --- doing engineering and mathematical
modeling --- not a Systems Wizard.  I have posted requests for help to
the net before, but my only responses have been from other disgruntled
drop-outs.  I {\em can} work productively under DOS, and so I continue
to do so.  I follow this group only out of habit and in the (slim)
hope that a fix will flash by.

Eventually, I'll replace my XT clone with a -386 box, and I'll
probably try again.  Until then, I have about $80 worth of useless
software and a high level of ``upgrade frustration.''

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