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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: minix 1.2 on 3.5" drives.
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Date: 20 Apr 88 18:46:48 GMT
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I am looking into putting minix on a zenith 183 portable.  It has a 20
meg drive, an meg of expanded ram, and a 3.5" 720k floppy.  I have the
minix 1.2 distribution floppies (360k) and have them running on a
vanilla pc with no problems.  The pc has a 3.5" drive but it seems to me
that I have to (re)write the floppy driver to recognize it.  It tried
making a block special device with major=2 and minor=3, but it failed.
Does anyone out there know how to go about getting the stuff over to the
little disks?  While we're at it, does anyone have minix running on a 
zenith portable?  Is it compatible enough or am I wasting my time?
g.

George Hartzell			                 (303) 492-4535
MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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George Hartzell			                 (303) 492-4535
MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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