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Subject: MINIX on c.b.i.p
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Date: 11 Oct 90 23:47:18 GMT
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I tried mail for this, but it bounced.

A week or so ago, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP posted that Andy 
(Andy Tanenbaum, I presume) had sent him a minix demo disk
as a 360k file, and that it hadn't been posted because it
needed a support program to write it on a disk in raw format
(ie. it's not a DOS disk).

Minix doesn't use DOS disks, but it does use DOS-formatted disks.
Seems it should be easy enough to read in the 360k raw disk
image with debug.com, and then write it out to raw disk sectors
on a floppy.

362496 bytes/diskette
--------------------- = 708 sectors/diskette (0x2c4, that is)
512 bytes/sector

>debug
-n image.bin
-l
-w cs:100 0 0 2c4
-q

Not having the demo image I haven't tried this, but it seems like
it should work.