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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Trouble with Amiga floppies - a possible solution
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Date: 12 Oct 90 11:50:23 GMT
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I've had the same problems as others with AmigaMINIX.

The boot floppy was easy enought to fix.

Now I have a 'corrupted' /usr floppy, system binaries #2 and my c compiler 
disk got hosed the first time I tried to recompile something and write it
to the C compiler disk. 

Since my /usr disk has been bad since day 1, I am unable to access things like
diskcopy, mkfs, fsck etc.

transfer is real sensitive, and can't read some floppies I write under 
AmigaDOS. I find I need to format a floppy every time I want to transfer 
from AmigaDOS to Minix.

Someone sent a copy of fsck to me so I could transfer it to minix and 
try to repair the /usr filesystem. I (finally) got it to transfer only to
find that transfer on minix creates a file with NO execute permission
and chmod is on the corrupted /usr disk...

can you say 'frustration' ? :-)

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W. John Guineau   			guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation
Marlboro MA. 01752