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From: clyde2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (James C Elder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX problems w/Amstrad PC 1386 and SCSI hard drive
Message-ID: <66677@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 06:21:36 GMT
References: <ben.3646@epmooch.UUCP>
Reply-To: clyde2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (James C Elder)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CIS
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In article <ben.3646@epmooch.UUCP> ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes:
-I recently purchased a copy of MINIX 1.5, the 3 1/2" version, intending to
-run it on my AMSTRAD PC 1386, but I have been unable to get it to even boot.
-
-Does anyone know, first of all, what could be causing this problem?  Am I
-dealing with an insurmountable hardware-software incompatibility?  Has anyone
-run MINIX on an AMSTRAD system, or on the SEAGATE SCSI drive? 

    I also own an Amstrad 1386, and would like to know the answer to this 
query. I have been reading about MINIX, and am considering purchasing it. 
Please clue me in on the answer to this problem.

Thank you,

		Jim Elder
		clyde2@unix.cis.pit.edu