Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!ge-dab!tarpit!ucf-cs!ucf-cs.ucf.edu!richard From: richard@ucf-cs.ucf.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Useless busywork Message-ID: <12500003@ucf-cs.ucf.edu> Date: 1 Feb 90 16:50:00 GMT References: <469@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> Lines: 28 Nf-ID: #R:fsu.scri.fsu.edu:-46900:ucf-cs.ucf.edu:12500003:000:1387 Nf-From: ucf-cs.ucf.edu!richard Feb 1 11:50:00 1990 /* Written 9:32 am Jan 24, 1990 by ghelmer@DSUVAX.UUCP in ucf-cs.ucf.edu:comp.os.minix */ > Maybe a Minix User's Group could send out complete source disks upon > receipt of money and the original boot disk from a purchased Minix. > This would ensure that no one could get 1.5.0 without having 1.1, 1.2, > or 1.3. I purchased Minix 1.1 for a class several years ago. I got the book and a set of disks. Since that class, I have moved several times. I didn't use Minix in the intervening time because I was running a 4.77 MHz clone with no hard drive and only 1 360K floppy. Recently, I was able to purchase a 386 with sufficient hard disk space and, lo and behold, my interest in Minix was revived. I still had the book, but can't find the disks. Should I be prevented from using the upgrade path because I can't produce a boot disk? I am running 1.2 that was given to me by a friend, but I want to upgrade to 1.5. What is the current "legal" upgrade path and how does Minix 1.5 obtained by this path differ from Minix 1.5 created by downloading diffs and building it myself? Richard Dunn-Roberts richard@ist1.ucf-cs.ucf.edu Visual Systems Lab Institute for Simulation and Training 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300 Orlando, FL 32826 (407) 658 5074/5073