dcox@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dena A Cox) (02/21/91)
I've been debating for a while if I should purchase Minix.
Last night I downloaded the Demo disk, Wrote it to a 5.25 {IBM}
and tried it on my Zenith 386/16. Didn't work. Got some sort of a Panic
error.
My question is, Is there any one out there who runs Minix on a Zenith?
The manual said if the demo dosn't run, Full Minix may not run either.
I want to make sure I can use it before I actually buy it.
Thank you,
Robert Douglas
douglas@geo2s.mps.ohio-state.edujthomas@nmsu.edu (James Thomas) (02/25/91)
In article <9102210619.AA03804@right.magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> dcox@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dena A Cox) writes:
(Well,,,,, someone wrote.... :-)
rd> I've been debating for a while if I should purchase Minix.
rd> Last night I downloaded the Demo disk, Wrote it to a 5.25 {IBM}
rd> and tried it on my Zenith 386/16. Didn't work. Got some sort of a Panic
rd> error.
rd> My question is, Is there any one out there who runs Minix on a Zenith?
rd> The manual said if the demo dosn't run, Full Minix may not run either.
rd> I want to make sure I can use it before I actually buy it.
rd> Thank you,
rd> Robert Douglas
rd> douglas@geo2s.mps.ohio-state.edu
I have a Zenith 386/16 (though I've replaced the Z449 video card from the
dawn of VGA with a Z549... :-( . I took the 1.5.10 distribution out of the
box and it runs "successfully" on my 386/16. It booted (with the
previously discussed awful noise as it tries to break the 1.2M drive :-)
from floppy and read the hard disk OK. I do not run minix on that system
normally (no disk space), and the 1.2 version did not run successfully on
it (unexpected interrupt panic). But you should be safe getting 1.5 .
Jimasg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) (05/21/91)
I have a copy of the demo disk (kind of) for Minix. Unfortunately, I do
not have a program that will make a byte for byte copy of it.
One such program I know of is called rawrite (I have seen rawrite.c and rawrite.exe)
but I cannot seem to find either of these anywhere.
help?
Bruce
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