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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: AmigaMINIX
Keywords: Amiga MINIX floppy
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Date: 17 Oct 90 11:32:03 GMT
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In article <1855@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>, eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J
Michael) writes:
|> From: eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael)
|> Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
|> Subject: AmigaMINIX
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> The MINIX Centre has being playing with AmigaMINIX over the last couple of
|> days, and in view of the various comments on the net I thought that their
|> findings might be useful.

[stuff deleted]

|> We had to discard two original disks before finding one that could be copied
|> by the Amiga - having ten packets of AmigaMINIX on the shelf behind you can
|> be very useful at this stage.  Once copied and MINIX installed, the A500
|> booted quite happily off the minix.img file, without having to use the
backup
|> file minix.img.bu.  However, the two files do appear to be different - does
|> any one know whether they are supposed to be ?
|> 

Interesting. I wonder if the minix.img.bu file that some had to use is the 
image that currupts floppies on write. Since some people have this corruption
problem and some don't and others have the bad minix.img problem while others
don't

Perhaps a quick correlation?  Could AmigaMINIX users say which  minix image 
they used and if they had corruption problems once booted.


I used minix.img.bu and had floppies get corrupted.


|> 
|> 
|> Andy Michael
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Andy Michael (eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk)      " Emulation is the sincerest
|> 85 Hawthorne Crescent                         form of pottery."
|> West Drayton
|> Middlesex                                    - William Frend De Morgan
|> UB7 9PA   
|> 

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