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From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Booting MINIX from a 720K 3.5 floppy
Summary: so how about burning it into a ROM?
Message-ID: <3149@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 16 Mar 90 13:27:49 GMT
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Reply-To: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
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In article <1990Mar16.022933.11010@iwarp.intel.com> pcm@iwarp.intel.com 
(Phil Miller) writes:
>
> Yes, I've successfully booted & run MINIX on a Zenith laptop computer.
> I didn't do anything special to make it work, just made a boot disk (on
> another machine), a root file system disk, and booted it up just fine.
>
> I sort of made a point of doing this; for some reason, I got a perverse 
> kick out of running (something like) Unix on a computer while riding 
> in a car between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington; maybe this
> is a first?

  Yea, we all know that, it's a perversity of the highest order to have 
  to ride a car between Portland, OR and Seattle, WA... ;-))  but how 
  about attempting another first -- that of burning a suitable subset of
  Minix into a ROM, and putting that, instead of the MSDOS, into, say, 
  a Toshiba T1000SE?

  In fact:  can it be done at all, as far as the Toshiba/ Minix
  is concerned?

  Could Andy T. perhaps indicate what subset of commands, apart from 
  the kernel, is it that one ought to select for such a minimum setup?

--Ian Feldman / ianf@nada.kth.se  ||  uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf / The "I had the
        bug narrowed down to a subrutine and then I lost all interest" hacker