Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: installing minix without boot disk
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On 1999-06-22 shetzl@teleweb.at said:
   >Hi all,
   >I have got a computer (286, 2 20MB hds, 2 MB ram) where I want to
   >install Minix. The problem is, I can not get it to boot from a
   >floppy drive and there is no possibility to set something like a
   >boot sequence in the CMOS. The computer seems to refuse to boot
   >from anything then a primary partition on the first hard disk. I
Are you sure you can't set the boot sequence?  Are the floppy drive types set
correctly in CMOS?  If it still won't boot from floppy it might have a
defective drive or cable.  Or maybe it can only read 720k disks and not 1.44.


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