jdp@uk.ac.city (Jeff Penfold) (11/17/89)
Hello,
I have been using Minix on my Atari for some months now, with just the
aid of two 720K floppy disks. The time had come to buy a harddisk so
that I can unpack those sources properly, and really do something.
What I have found since getting the harddisk is that I cannot get Minix
running with the Harddisk attached to the Atari. I thought to skirt
around this problem by creating a "MINIX.IMG" file on the hard disk, and
then booting Minix with the program "MINIX.PRG".
Sadly, no.
When I created the boot image from the *original* boot disk, "00.Boot",
with the command "rflop a: minix.img 130000", a file was created. But,
when I ran the command "minix minix.img", the responce was "minix.img:
wrong format" (or very close to this), why? How can I get round this?
Can someone send me a fix for this?
Of course, a general problem is why can't I boot from the minix floppy
with the harddisk attached?
Sorry this has been so long, I hope you can help,
Jeff Penfold
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