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From: rvuori@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix LAN?
Message-ID: <1991May26.221841.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 26 May 91 20:18:41 GMT
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Hi, I'm a complete novice to Minix, but would like to set up some kind of an
nix system on some 286's a have hanging around, and think MINIX would be the
perfect solution, but I am not shure whether the software I need really exists
out there?

The following computers would be used:

Four 286's with 640 k RAM each, booting from floppy disks, but can be equipped
with hard-disks, and a 8-bit Novell ethernet card each.
One 286 with 2.6 M of RAM and two 20 Meg MFM harddisks, and maybe a bigger
SCSI-drive will be added, currently running dedicated NetWare 2.15 with a 
8-bit ethernet card.

Is there a way of leaving NetWare on the server and access the files from minix
on the other machines in the LAN?

Will the system be reasonably fast if I put minix on each of the 5 286's and
use one of them as the main file-server, is it even possible? I was thinking of
running a BBS on the system.


        Rasmus Vuori
	RVUORI@cc.helsinki.fi

P.S.
Sorry if these questions are stupid, but my I haven't found anybody who would
say neither NO, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE nor YES, DO IT LIKE THIS...