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Subject: Re: installing minix
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   >I have a 286 and I would like to install minix, on www.minix.org I
   >found minix 2.0 I created the boot and root disks and booted just
   >fine.... but I would like to have vi,cc and other utilities...I
   >guess they are in usr.tgz,isn't it??
   >but the file is 3.5Mb It cannot be fitted in a single disk, 
If you have a Unix or Linux system you can split this file into floppy-size
pieces using dd.  For DOS/Windows, the minix ftp site has a program called
fdvol.
   >another
   >thing does minix support msdos formatted disks, if so, how can I
   >mount a msdos disk in minix??
You don't mount a DOS disk in minix, you use the programs dosread, doswrite
and dosdir.

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