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From: asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Problems with DOSDIR, DOSREAD, and DOSWRITE
Keywords: MINIX, DOSREAD, IBM
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Date: 13 Jun 91 17:43:13 GMT
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In article <1516@opus.NMSU.Edu> jejenkin@nmsu.edu (JENKINS) writes:
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}     I purchased MINIX v1.5 two days ago, and spent most of yesterday
}morning installing it on my 286 PC.  Upon completion of the installation,
}I attempted to use the DOSXXX commands to grab some C code I wanted to
}load up.  I keep getting a message that says "unable to open /dev/dosA"
}(or dosB or dosC, whichever drive I try to read from).  The battery
}of test programs supplied with MINIX ran and exectuted flawlessly; I am
}entering the DOSDIR, READ, and WRITE commands exactly as stated in the
}manual.  Any clues as to what is going wrong here??  Pertinent info follows:
}12 MHz 286 clone with AMI VLSI chipset
}MS-DOS 3.30

Do the following
ln /dev/fd0 /dev/dosA
ln /dev/fd1 /dev/dosB
ln /dev/hd1(or whatever your dos HD partition is) /dev/dosC

then try again and it will work
culater
			Bruce
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