Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!wsd From: wsd@cbnews.att.com (wayne.s.dinsmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Needing DOS to format Message-ID: <1990Jun11.113452.4138@cbnews.att.com> Date: 11 Jun 90 11:34:52 GMT References: <21518@nigel.udel.EDU> Sender: Wayne S. Dinsmore Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 25 In article <21518@nigel.udel.EDU> andrew@eleceng.bradford.ac.uk (Andrew G. Minter) writes: >> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 15:55:35 GMT >> From: "LCDR Michael E. Dobson" >> >> > No, one shouldn't have DOS 3.3, one shouldn't have DOS at all! MINIX is an >> > OPERATING SYSTEM (as DOS trys to be ;-), only if one needs to format one >> > needs DOS. But who formats these days ;-).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > >> No longer true, Bruce Evans fixed that with his posting of a Minix >> stand-alone format program. You can now totaly eliminate DOS from >> your Minix machine :-). > >You still need DOS if you have 3.5" high density disks :-( > >Andrew >-- Not true! I format 3.5 disks to 1.44Meg from minix all the time. It took a while to figure out the device name to use but with all the info passing thru the net I got my answers. Would you believe you have to use a ps2 device name to do it? Believe it! -- __________________________________________________________________ | Wayne S. Dinsmore Make it in Massachusetts, | AT&T Bell Labs att!cbnews!wsd Spend it in New Hampshire. | Room MV-1X54 (508)960-6113