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From: taylor-d@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Douglas Taylor)
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 13:01:27 GMT
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In article <9229@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
%Better yet, if possible, do everything on a machine with a 360K drive, and
%then try booting the 360K disk on the machine with only a 1.2M drive.  Then
%post a message to the net reporting the results.  My suspicion is that there
%is something wrong with the use of 360K diskettes in 1.2M drives, but I don't
%know what.
%
%Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

I just installed the Minix demo on my machine (CompuAdd 286-10) as follows:

1.  Formatted 360K disk in my 360K drive (drive B:)
2.  Copied demo file to the disk (drive C: -> drive B:) using rawrite.exe
3.  Put disk in drive A: (1.2 M) and rebooted.

I haven't done much more than boot up the system and peek at the various
directories, but so far I have had no problems whatsoever.
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