Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!muir From: muir@convex.com (David Muir) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: PC Minix demo (questions) Keywords: demo, 360k/1.2MB drives, 720k/1.44MB, help! Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 14:34:31 GMT References: <1991Mar5.055145.7352@csus.edu> <1991Mar5.214921.1010@unixg.ubc.ca> <9229@star.cs.vu.nl> <1991Mar8.133927.12894@cbnewsd.att.com> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: sushi.convex.com In <1991Mar8.133927.12894@cbnewsd.att.com> timborn@cbnewsd.att.com (timothy.d.born) writes: >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) >Formatted a 360K floppy on a 360K drive, wrote the demo to the floppy >using that same drive, booted off of a 1.2Mb drive and it worked just fine. >FYI >-tim >timborn@att.com I second the motion. I did exactly the same thing and it works for me. * Dave *