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From: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: IBMPC Demo Disk
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.035756.27904@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 91 03:57:56 GMT
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In article <1991Feb19.182447.6756@sbcs.sunysb.edu> cgrazian@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu (GRAZIANO) writes:
>This message was posted some time ago:
>>I recently got the 1.5 Demo disk by FTP from ftp.cs.vu.nl in /minix.
>>This file is a disk image. My question is, how can I transfer this onto a
>>standard PC floppy?
>
>I was hoping a response to this would be posted, but haven't seen one,
>so any reply must have been by mail.
>
>Could someone post this information?  Until I find out how to do this,
>the demo disk is a useless file taking up space on my disk...

ftp.cs.vu.nl contains a program which can do the transfer.  This is
for the PC-MINIX.  The directory /minix contains the source and the
executable.  I tried it.  The program works.

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