mikko@penet.UUCP (Mikko Voipio) (08/03/89)
Marty Leisner wrote:
I'm trying to boot Minix on my sun386i (without much success so far).
I have a method to copy the release 5 1/4" disks onto my sun workstation as
a disk image (sequence of bytes).
The sun386i has 3 1/2 floppy disks (1.44 megabytes).
It high density media (2.0 Megabytes) work at 1.44 megabytes but not a 720K
bytes.
What steps need to be taken to build a bootable release for 3 1/2" disks
from 5 1/4" disks. I really don't know much about these 3 1/2" disks (I've
seen various diffs to the floppy drivers).
Direct image copy. I used dd in an 386 PC running Microport UNIX and trasfered
it via ethernet to our Roadrunner. Then I put it to 720K disk using dd.
You can use direct copy to 1.44Mb disk, too.
Do I have to make a current kernel + bootdisk (i.e. 1.3d) before I can have
a bootable 3 1/2" image.
No if you'll copy boot, root and usr diskette (you'll need 3 3"5 disk).
All my experience based on test to boot Minix 1.1 under VP/IX on SUN386i.
Cheers
Mikko