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From: traw@grad1.cis.upenn.edu
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Subject: questions that aren't on the Sheet
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Date: 16 Sep 90 03:53:21 GMT
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   Sorry for asking the novice questions without first reading the
Question Sheet; I found it a little ways back in the newsgroup.  I
have some questions that are not answered by the Sheet though.
Prentice Hall was cooperative, but I'd like a second opinion before
putting that much money into getting it up and running.

1) The Sheet says something about copying the disks for 3 or so
   friends.  Would it be wrong for me and two or three others to make
   a group purchase of the disks, and split the costs among us?

2) My PC has a 20 megabyte drive.  How much space is required for
   Minix?

3) Can Minix and MS-DOS share the same drive?  I understand that you
   cannot run ms-dos apps from within minix, but can I partition the
   drive for half ms-dos and half minix?  If so,

	a) How do I partition the drive
	b) How do I choose which partition to activate when booting?

4) Which version do I need?  The PH people told me that since I was a
   student, I need 1.3.  I thought I would be better with the newer
   (latest) version, since more of the bugs would be worked out.  Not
   true?

Thanks,
-drew