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From: hare@seq.uncwil.edu (David F. Hare)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: booting from B drive on IBM (compatible)?
Message-ID: <1579@seq.uncwil.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 02:14:24 GMT
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
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I received minix 1.5 today from PH.  Problem is, the people who ordered
it for me ordered 3.5 disks (my B drive) where as my A (bootable) drive 
is a 5.25.

My question is how can I successfully boot minix now?  I did a (DOS) diskcopy
of the 3.5's to 5.25's and tried booting that way.  I figured since diskcopy
is a sector by sector copy, this may work, and it kind of does.  But I get
unrecoverable disk errors when using the 5.25's, I assume due to the different
size of the disks.

Is there anything I can do?  Preferably boot from B with the disks that PH sent.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

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