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From: ghelmer@DSUVAX.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Useless busywork
Summary: Upgrade routes
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.152534.5638@DSUVAX.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 90 15:25:34 GMT
References: <469@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> <12500003@ucf-cs.ucf.edu>
Organization: Dakota State University
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In article <12500003@ucf-cs.ucf.edu>, richard@ucf-cs.ucf.edu writes:
> /* 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.
> ...
> 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?

No.  My proposal was made because I think people want the 1.5 upgrade _now_.
Prentice-Hall apparently will be selling one, but it won't be available for
several months.  If a Minix User's Group (which doesn't exist yet on this
continent) were to sell upgrade kits that contained a 1.5 boot disk, I
think the group would need a way to cover itself to prove it wasn't violating
copyrights.  The only way I could think of then was to require an original
boot disk.

> Richard Dunn-Roberts		             richard@ist1.ucf-cs.ucf.edu



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