[comp.os.minix] PC-MINIX demo

awol@vpnet.chi.il.us (Al Oomens) (03/06/91)

I have an NEC Mulit-Speed HD laptop, which has some type of
translating HD controller. I am concerned about whether or not 
MINIX would work properly. I got a copy of the demo, and was
able to boot it (from floppy), create a filesystem on my HD,
but could not boot from the hard drive.
Is the demo restricted to booting from floppyor should I have 
been able to boot from my hard drive?
Since I was able to make a filesystem on my hard drive, does
this necessarily mean that if I bought the MINIX package, that
I would be able to boot from the hard drive? (I did also copy
the files from the ram disk to the filesystem on the hard disk).
Thanks!