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From: wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX 1.1 - 1.5 and more
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Date: 4 May 91 21:24:34 GMT
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Reply-To: wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu.UUCP (Clarence Wilkerson)
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I don't know what your time is worth or how much you will
enjoy the patching process. I would guess it took me a couple
of weekends to move from 1.1 to 1.5.10. That was doing the
patches on a Sun workstation. Certainly in the process you
learn the directory structure of MINIX.
  I would say it's pretty hopeless if you don't have a hard
disk. If you have a hard disk but it's not set up for MINIX
yet, you might try using the bios-wini version of the kernel
as used on the PC demo disk. Then you can tune it later
and enable the protected mode if you have a 286/386.

Clarence Wilkerson