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From: vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: IBM demo compatibility with Epson LT
Keywords: IBM Epson demo
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.185342.4699@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 18:53:42 GMT
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I recently downloaded the IBM PC demo from plains to send to a Cobol
Wizard who wants to learn Minix and build a Cobol compiler for it.
I tried it on my Epson Equity LT.  Zcat'ed through dd to a 720K floppy.
The floppy boots to the first screen, but pressing = to continue results
in Panic, cannot find Winchester partition table.  I have been running
the PH 1.5 release for a couple of months; it boots the XT and AT boot
disks, but the Bios boot disk gives the same result as the demo.  My 
friend has a 2 X 720K XT clone (brand unknown) and would like to run the
demo.  I have no indication that Equity LT is not hardware compatible
except that Minix setclock can't find the backup clock (which is not an XT 
feature, though my machine has one).  I don't see anything in the manual
for the demo that says that you have to have a hard disk to run the demo.

For reference, the Epson LT runs a NEC V30 which has 80186 instructions.
Anybody have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?




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