raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels) (03/01/91)
agodwin@acorn.co.uk (Adrian Godwin) writes: >A games magazine in the UK used to produce a cover-disc which could be read on >both Amiga and ST. OK, to be honest: it should be possible for us to make such a demo disk. The only problem is that once we've made the disk, Prentice-Hall should be able to copy it. Considering what they've done to the original AmigaMINIX distribution I don't think they can copy a floppy that contains AmigaDOS AND PC tracks. >The resulting disc could be a pain to copy [...] and that's why we don't have an AmigaMINIX demo disk. >[...] but it would be worth doing >for general booting, not just the demo disc. Quite a lot of old Amiga hard >discs don't auto-boot, so many users would appreciate a single-disc boot >even after they've written a hard-disc driver. invalid argument. Once you have written a hard disk driver (as I have...) and your own hard disk in not auto-boot (as is the case with my A590 and 1.2 Amiga) you only need a single floppy to boot MINIX: You boot AmigaDOS from a floppy, you have the bootstrap loader and the minix.img file on an AmigaDOS partition (so you don't need a floppy for that) and you also have a small partition for your RAM disk (once again: no floppy needed). -Raymond. PS: I'm also looking for B-testers for my NEW, IMPROVED A590/2091 hard disk driver. Both interfaces ('XT' and SCSI) are supported. The new AmigaMINIX test version should be available on ftp.cs.vu.nl in the pub/raymond directory before the weekend.