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From: jthomas@nmsu.edu (James Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Demo Disk
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Date: 24 Feb 91 19:33:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: dcox@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu's message of 21 Feb 91 06:19:07 GMT

In article <9102210619.AA03804@right.magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> dcox@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dena A Cox) writes:
(Well,,,,, someone wrote....  :-)

rd>      I've been debating for a while if I should purchase Minix.   
rd>   Last night I downloaded the Demo disk, Wrote it to a 5.25 {IBM}
rd> and tried it on my Zenith 386/16.  Didn't work.  Got some sort of a Panic 
rd> error.

rd>      My question is, Is there any one out there who runs Minix on a Zenith?
rd> The manual said if the demo dosn't run, Full Minix may not run either.
rd> I want to make sure I can use it before I actually buy it.

rd>                                       Thank you,
rd>                                          Robert Douglas
rd>                                          douglas@geo2s.mps.ohio-state.edu

I have a Zenith 386/16 (though I've replaced the Z449 video card from the
dawn of VGA with a Z549... :-( .  I took the 1.5.10 distribution out of the
box and it runs "successfully" on my 386/16.  It booted (with the
previously discussed awful noise as it tries to break the 1.2M drive :-)
from floppy and read the hard disk OK.  I do not run minix on that system
normally (no disk space), and the 1.2 version did not run successfully on
it (unexpected interrupt panic).  But you should be safe getting 1.5 .

Jim


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