ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (10/03/90)
It has been reported that the company that did the reproduction of the Amiga disks managed to introduce an error on the boot disk :-( Would everybody who has already received MINIX-Amiga please send me a short message saying whether any read errors were encountered during installation or on any disks. If there were none, please send me a short note just saying: No errors on my copy of MINIX Amiga". I'd like to see how many copies were munged. The funny thing is that the verification copies the disk copier sent back were perfect. No disk errors had been reported for the IBM or Atari so far. It may be that the idea of producing 720K industry standard disks for the Amiga completely freaked them out, although the boot disk is 880K Amiga standard. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
JAGBDED1%PANAM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (10/05/90)
AST writes: >It has been reported that the company that did the reproduction of the >Amiga disks managed to introduce an error on the boot disk :-( I have firsthand experience with this. Not only was track 13 on the boot disk totally fried, disks 3-4 had holes in them like swiss cheese. When I finally managed to get the think to boot (on my stock Amiga 2000HD), I was presented with this when minix asked for the /usr disk (#3): Unrecoverable disk error on device 2/8, block 1 mount: /dev/dd0 is not a valid file system /usr/adm/wtmp: cannot create /usr/bin/printroot: not found /usr/bin/readclock: not found /usr/bin/date: not found /usr/bin/stty: not found Welcome to MINIX. [ I wish :( ] I simply cannot BELIEVE this one. After five weeks of pulling teeth, trying to get this thing from Prentice-Hall (they changed the shipping date three times), they have the nerve to send me bad copies. Now I understand why my CS professor laughed when I told him I had ordered direct from P-H. What really bugs me is that P-W wants my copy back before they will ship me out a new copy. I have a simple request for anyone out there who has Amiga minix running: is there any way someone could send me an image of disk 3 (/usr). The package is mostly braindead without it. I think I can (maybe) rebuild the other stuff. I'm sorry for sounding so p.o.'d, but I've been growing more and more frustrated for the past 6 hours working on the problem. I'd really appreciate any help or info. Thanks. Joe "AmigaMan" Gonalez JAGBDED@PANAM jagbded%panam.bitnet@ricevm1.rice/edu Why waste time on boring computers? Only Amiga Makes It Possible