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From: JAGBDED1%PANAM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: Problems with MINIX for the Amiga
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Date: 5 Oct 90 05:08:46 GMT
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AST writes:
>It has been reported that the company that did the reproduction of the
>Amiga disks managed to introduce an error on the boot disk :-(

   I have firsthand experience with this.  Not only was track 13 on the boot
disk totally fried, disks 3-4 had holes in them like swiss cheese. When I
finally managed to get the think to boot (on my stock Amiga 2000HD), I was
presented with this when minix asked for the /usr disk (#3):

Unrecoverable disk error on device 2/8, block 1
mount: /dev/dd0 is not a valid file system
/usr/adm/wtmp: cannot create
/usr/bin/printroot: not found
/usr/bin/readclock: not found
/usr/bin/date: not found
/usr/bin/stty: not found

Welcome to MINIX.   [ I wish :( ]

    I simply cannot BELIEVE this one. After five weeks of pulling teeth,
trying to get this thing from Prentice-Hall (they changed the shipping date
three times), they have the nerve to send me bad copies.  Now I understand
why my CS professor laughed when I told him I had ordered direct from P-H.
What really bugs me is that P-W wants my copy back before they will ship me
out a new copy.
   I have a simple request for anyone out there who has Amiga minix running:
is there any way someone could send me an image of disk 3 (/usr). The package
is mostly braindead without it. I think I can (maybe) rebuild the other stuff.
I'm sorry for sounding so  p.o.'d, but I've been growing more and more
frustrated for the past 6 hours working on the problem.  I'd really
appreciate any help or info. Thanks.

Joe "AmigaMan" Gonalez
JAGBDED@PANAM
jagbded%panam.bitnet@ricevm1.rice/edu
 Why waste time on boring computers?  Only Amiga Makes It Possible