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Ben Fountain wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Hopfully you guys can help. I need to get minix onto my machine for
> the work from uni. But...
>
> 1) Is it OK with the athlon chip? anyone tried it with gigabyte
> motherboards esp?
>
> 2) I've heard it can only use the first 1024 sectors of the hard
> drive. Is this true? are there any work-arounds? is it safe to even
> try?
>
> TIA
> -Ben Fountain
> ben.fountain@virgin.net

On a machine that good, why use Minix?

