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From: kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J Bot)
Subject: Re: Minix Demo loadup problems
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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:32:26 GMT
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beige@indy.net (John Seroe) writes:

>I am trying to boot up the Minix demo disk which I got from the mirror on 
>nic.funet.fi.  I have RAWRITE'ed the image onto a 1.44meg 3.5" floppy -- 
>an image that was ~360k, not ~720k -- because I could not find another 
>image anywhere.  When I go to boot, it tells me that the demo is loading 
>and gives some copyright information, but then it finishes a ~15 second 
>disk read and freezes.  I have attempted booting on an IBM 386SX16 with 
>2MB RAM as well as a 486DX66 with 8MB RAM.

The demo is still Minix 1.5.  The bootstrap it uses didn't know about
1.44 Mb diskettes, so it fails.  If you want to run this demo then you
have to find a 720 kb diskette, or format a 1.44 Mb diskette as 720 kb.
(You may have to tape over the "high-density" hole opposite the
write-protect tab to make a drive believe it is low density.)

Another solution is to get ROOT & USR from 1.7.2/i86 or 1.7.2/i386,
concatenate them together, and RaWrite them to 1.44 Mb.  Type 'fd0c'
when you see a "/dev/" prompt, then login as 'root'.
--
								Kees.
