Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: "word too long"
From: bmarcum@iglou.com
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On 1999-08-17 eajam@hotmail.com said:
   >comp.os.minix:28542 Okay this is the deal.  I haven't used Minix in
   >over a year.  Now, I'm trying to install it in a multi-boot machine,
   >Toshiba laptop with an Intel Celeron processor.  While booting the
   >USR diskette, version 2.0.2, I ran into a line saying "word too
   >long."  After this I got another line talking about drivers, and
   >then I got
   >"vvvvvvv...vvv: cannot execute
   >Login as root, and run "setup" to install Minix.
   >init: console: Exec format error
   >init: ttyc1: Exec format error
I wonder if the disks might have gotten corrupted somehow.  You might want
to make new root and usr disks (download them from ftp.cs.vu.nl if necessary)
and try again.

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