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From: nall@rigel.cs.utk.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Error in Minix-386 Tutorial
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.185733.25453@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 18:57:33 GMT
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The following message to George Patapis was returned to me by the mailer
when I tried to send it to him.  Since it is a message of general interest,
pointing out an error in the Minix-386 Tutorial, I am taking the liberty
of replying to him by posting to the net :-)

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In your message of Tue, 22 Jan 91 you write:
>  I am installing Minix 386 using the tutorial.....
>
>  Just for the record the error I think I spotted is in Step 6 where
>  you gave instructions to untar mx386_1.1.01 but of course this is 
>  not a tarred  file therefor it doesn't work.

   Yup, that was indeed an error!  I have corrected it in my copy.
   Thanks for telling me about it.

John Nall