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From: boyer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chuck Boyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Getting 1.3 sources to dos disk for transfer to unix for upgrade
Keywords: Past experiences on this?
Message-ID: <2831@sumax.seattleu.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 23:01:18 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA
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I am new to the Minix world. I have 1.3 on 360K 5 1/4" floppies.
I need help please on getting the sources onto dos diskettes so that
I can transfer them (via TeleMate telecommunications package zmodem)
onto bsd4.3/encore/multimax/unix where I have the 1.5.10 diffs/patches/pam
to apply there.  I have high-density drives, once Minix is booted on the
a:\floppy, every time I access a command it reads drive a: to find the
executable so I can not place a second blank 5 1/4" in drive a: to copy
a file to, once I remove the disk I lose the path location for the exe-
cutable to be used by the operating system.  Can I mount the files onto
the hard-drive and then copy the sources to there and copy to drive a: from their. I already installed the hd_fdsk boot upgrade program and it loaded onto
the hard drive but wouldn't boot from there. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
chuck

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