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Al Woodhull wrote:
> 
> requirements low. If you press Esc at boot time to see the boot
> parameters you'll see the image= parameter with some numbers that tell
> boot the sector address and size of the kernel image.

I did it the hard way.  I read the kernel with  dd  off the floppy and
wrote it to my boot-partition :-)

> There is also a conventional kernel image tucked in somewhere (maybe
> in /usr/tmp) in the TINYUSR disk images. The idea is that you should
> copy this to /minix on the hard disk.

Whilst I was doing my dd-orgy I couldnt find any info about that 
alternate kernel-image.  Am I sloppy reader or is it not documented ?

Ciao
	Mecki
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