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From: kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J. Bot)
Subject: Re: 360k install complete
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 07:38:23 GMT
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munrom@actrix.gen.nz (Mark Munro) writes:

[snip]
>Could someone provide the offset and size of the minix kernel in
>the file called 'ROOT'?

You have to read and concatenate the segments 532:16 and 550:222.  It
may however be easier to mount ROOT and copy the file 'minix'.  :-)

I have to read my own manual page of my own installboot command to find
out how to make TINYROOT bootable.  :-)
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	                        Kees J. Bot  (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
	              Systems Programmer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
