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From: terence@ttidca.TTI.COM (Terence Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Duplicating Minix boot diskette
Summary: How hard is it?
Message-ID: <22737@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:18:37 GMT
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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Hi,

  I saw a review of Minx in Byte and intend to get into it.  I have some
questions first, however.  Primarily, how hard is it to duplicate the
Minix boot diskette?  I want to put Minix on a Compaq Portable (8088) with
360k drives, later, however I'll replace it with an 80386 system and
1.44 MB drive.  If I get 5.25" disks now (are they even 360k to begin with?)
is it possible to copy to a new boot diskette without going through some
kind of kernel build to the diskette.  Also, my primary machine is a 386
with OS/2 and Windows 3.0, can I use that to quickly compile kernel/system
changes for the Minix machine until I get a 386 for Minix alone.

Send replies to me at:  terence@ttidca.tti.com


Thanks,

Terry