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From: danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: PC Minix demo (questions)
Keywords: demo, 360k/1.2MB drives, 720k/1.44MB, help!
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Date: 7 Mar 91 01:39:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.055145.7352@csus.edu> <1991Mar5.214921.1010@unixg.ubc.ca>
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In article <1991Mar5.214921.1010@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>
>I too have finally found time to download the demo disk to give it a
>try. I also have a 1.2 Meg 5.25" on a 386. I've formatted a DD disk
>as 360k and rawrite the demo disk onto the floppy. I have used the 360k
>format on my 1.2 Meg for a good 3 years with no problems so that
>shouldn't be a problem. But like you, I can't get it to work either.
>What happens with me is I would reboot with the demo disk, the first
>menu comes up, I choose = and the cursor moves to the next line as if it
>accepted my command but then just sits there. Then the next key I press,
>the system reboots. It doesn't matter how long I wait or what keys I
>pressed (including F3), I hangs and when I pressed a key, it reboots. I
>tried changing the root device to f0 instead of the default ram disk and
>same thing. It onlu hangs after the = or u or any of the start commmand.
>I have a 386, ati ega wonder, 1.2 Meg 5.25" and a 1.44 Meg 3.5".
>Any suggestions? Thanks.
>
>Thomas
.
  What may be happening is that once minix boots up it is looking for 
files on the A: drive.  If you computer is like mine, the 3.5" drive
is the A: drive.  I put the demo on a 3.5" drive and rebooted,
and everything ran fine.

Good Luck, Dan