Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!klipper!beugel
From: beugel@cs.vu.nl (Beugel BJ)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Advise on harddisk wanted.
Message-ID: <983@klipper.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 2 Feb 88 13:48:10 GMT
Reply-To: beugel@cs.vu.nl (Beugel BJ)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: ST-238 with ST-11
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I am about to receive a Seagate hard-disk and would appreciate
some advise on how to go about installing Minix on it.
It is supposed to be a 30 MB  ST-238R with an ST-11R RLL
controller.
I am aware that the original driver will most probably need
some fixes before Minix will run but what I am most interested
in, is if and how I can install MS-DOS so that later on I can install
Minix without having to re-format and re-partition the whole
disk. Also, I understood that something has to be done about
an MS-DOS partition before a Minix file system can be
installed.
To cut a long story short, I am novice hard-disk user and any
advise on how to install Minix is welcome.
My PC is a clone running a V20 at 8 MHz with 640 K memory.

Oh, yeah. Is it wise to have more than one Minix partition on
the disk?


Many thanks,

Berend Jan Beugel (beugel@cs.vu.nl).

"That's all folks." (Tex Avery)