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From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Installation (360K drives)
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 18:18:56 GMT
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Albert S Woodhull (aswNS@hamp.hampshire.edu) wrote:
: On Thu, 29 Jun 1995 02:30:25 GMT Mark Munro (munrom@actrix.gen.nz) wrote in 
: comp.os.minix:

: [re installation on a system with 360K floppies]

: :   I have two hard drives with all the USR files sitting on one
: : disk, ready to be installed, in some manner, onto the the other
: : disk.  Is it possible for you or some other helpful person to
: : create a boot disk with the necessary files to install from this
: : position?

: I assume you mean you have two computers, one with Minix already
: installed on the hard disk, another with a hard disk upon which you
: want to install Minix, but with only 360K floppies on the second
: computer. I further assume you have at least one 5.25" drive on the
: system where you already have Minix installed, so that you have a way
: to write onto 360K drives from this system.

: You don't need another boot disk, you can boot with the 360K TINYROOT
: disk.

A word of warning - the TINYROOT binaries are 16-bit, reasonably
enough.  The SRC files are common between 16 and 32 bit, but
if you try running the 32-bit USR binaries with a TINYROOT root
file system only confusion and bitterness will follow.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

