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From: PKP88%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Rainer Perske)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX-ST: Can't boot MINIX from .IMG file after using FIXKEYS
Message-ID: <9203@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 20 Feb 89 16:34:53 GMT
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Hello,

I've run  into an installation problem  with MINIX-ST: I want  to start
MINIX from TOS w/o using a  floppy disk. I followed the instructions in
the manual  to create MINIX.IMG  on my hard  disk. There is  no problem
starting MINIX this way if (and only if) I've created MINIX.IMG from an
unchanged boot disk. But I have a german keyboard, so I ran FIXKEYS.PRG
on a copy  of my boot disk.  If I create a MINIX.IMG  from this changed
boot disk,  MINIX.PRG stops  with a  message: minix.img:  wrong format.
Why?

Is this behaviour known? Did I make any error? Is there a bug in one of
the files fixkeys.prg or minix.prg? Does a correction exist?

BTW: Thankx, Andy, Johan, Jost, for this great system !!!

Hoping for many answers....


Rainer Perske

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Rainer Perske                        EARN/BITNET: PERSKE@DMSWWU5P.bitnet
Institut fuer Kernphysik der         EARN/BITNET: PKP88@DMSWWU1A.bitnet
Westfaelischen Wilhelms-Universitaet                .
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