SYJXN%NASAGISS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jim Newell) (03/16/90)
Has anyone tried to boot MINIX from a 3.5 in floppy, or does anyone know how to make a boot disk on a 3.5 in floppy. I need to run it on my laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated
pcm@iwarp.intel.com (Phil Miller) (03/16/90)
In article <13990@nigel.udel.EDU> SYJXN%NASAGISS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jim Newell) writes: > > Has anyone tried to boot MINIX from a 3.5 in floppy, or does anyone >know how to make a boot disk on a 3.5 in floppy. I need to run it on >my laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated Yes, I've successfully booted & run MINIX on a Zenith laptop computer. I didn't do anything special to make it work, just made a boot disk (on another machine), a root file system disk, and booted it up just fine. I sort of made a point of doing this; for some reason, I got a perverse kick out of running (something like) Unix on a computer while riding in a car between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington; maybe this is a first? Phil -- Phil Miller iWarp Development Program pcm@iwarp.intel.com Intel Corporation Beaverton, Oregon
ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) (03/16/90)
In article <1990Mar16.022933.11010@iwarp.intel.com> pcm@iwarp.intel.com (Phil Miller) writes: > > Yes, I've successfully booted & run MINIX on a Zenith laptop computer. > I didn't do anything special to make it work, just made a boot disk (on > another machine), a root file system disk, and booted it up just fine. > > I sort of made a point of doing this; for some reason, I got a perverse > kick out of running (something like) Unix on a computer while riding > in a car between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington; maybe this > is a first? Yea, we all know that, it's a perversity of the highest order to have to ride a car between Portland, OR and Seattle, WA... ;-)) but how about attempting another first -- that of burning a suitable subset of Minix into a ROM, and putting that, instead of the MSDOS, into, say, a Toshiba T1000SE? In fact: can it be done at all, as far as the Toshiba/ Minix is concerned? Could Andy T. perhaps indicate what subset of commands, apart from the kernel, is it that one ought to select for such a minimum setup? --Ian Feldman / ianf@nada.kth.se || uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf / The "I had the bug narrowed down to a subrutine and then I lost all interest" hacker
aubrey@rpp386.cactus.org (Aubrey McIntosh) (03/17/90)
In article <13990@nigel.udel.EDU> SYJXN%NASAGISS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jim Newell) writes: > > Has anyone tried to boot MINIX from a 3.5 in floppy, or does anyone >know how to make a boot disk on a 3.5 in floppy. I need to run it on >my laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated I do this daily on my XT running 1.5.3. I plugged a Toshiba drive in the drive A (/dev/fd0) slot. With 1.5.x, I just let the makefile do its thing, no special action whatsoever. I do have a special entries, /dev/350 to tell mkfs and such that there are 1440 blocks on the device. I freely copy between the 360k on /fd1 and the 720 when I rebuild and feel a need for backups (or restores :-) ). Long ago, in 1.1, there were more details. But I used the 3.5" drive as a 360k floppy with no special action while I built up to the fix. There is message traffic re difficulties with a 1.44 M floppy. This would require a special controller (hardware...$) in the xt environment, so I am only speaking to the 720k drive. -- Aubrey McIntosh "Find hungry samurai." -- The Old Man 1502 Devon Circle comp.os.minix, comp.lang.modula2 Austin, TX 78723 1-(512)-452-1540 (v)
jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) (03/18/90)
The process is simple, but you need a machine with both a 3.5" and 5.25" drive
to do it since Minix is distributed on 5.25" media.
My machine has a 5.25" DS/HD drive and a 3.5" DS/DD drive. The 3.5" is access
accessed as /dev/at1. When you go to build the kernel (with surprise, build)
you build it to /dev/at1, not /dev/at0 or /dev/fd0. I swapped the cable
connections of drive A: and B: and viola, it worked.
A question for the net, could somebody please give me the list of what's on
each 5.25" DS/DD (PC distribution) in terms of files so I can make a 3.5"
master set of 1.3. I have 1.3 on 5.25" on DS/HD (AT distribution). Please
send the list in e-mail in some compressed uuencoded format to save space.
Thanks in advance.
// JCA
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*/ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (03/18/90)
In article <3149@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes: > Could Andy T. perhaps indicate what subset of commands, apart from > the kernel, is it that one ought to select for such a minimum setup? I never took a course on Toshiba ROMs so I don't know what goes into them. Sorry. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)