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I noticed this from dryice, and it made me think:
::::}I've not tried to install minix on an i286 , but I don't think 
::::}decompress is needed . 

::::}And when I tried to install Minix on my p166 , the system hang too . 
::::}but finally I found that it just because the floppy had bad tracks! 
::::}Because fdvol do a "raw write" to the floppied , i guess it can't 
::::}detect bad tracks . Maybe you can exame that first .

::::}Hope useful.

OK, I'll try that.

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