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You can just follow the installation instructions for the most part.  I did so
without any problems, other than that I had to boot off a floppy all the time
(arg).  Here's what you do to overcome the floppy problem:

    1)  Write a small program to read the first (boot) sector off of your Minix
boot disk.  This is easier than it sounds.  In NT, just write a program that
opens a drive as a binary file (e.g. CreateFile("A:", ...), then read the first
512 bytes from that file.  Save the file to NT's C: drive with a .--- extension
(e.g. C:\minix.---)
    2)  Edit the boot.ini file (add this line) :    C:\minix.---="Minix"
    3)  You can also specify to boot to NT from Minix's boot loader menu.  I
don't remember off the top of my head, but see the installation instructions for
specific syntax.  Specify \dev\hd0 (i.e. the C: drive) as the boot image.

-ds

"J. Liu" wrote:

> Hi, I'm a new comer.
>
> I want to install MINIX on a Pentium III running Windows NT, but not sure
> how to do it. Can anyone who has done so give me some hints? Is there anyway
> to run a simulator in Windows NT to simulate MINIX?
>
> Thanks a bunch.

