ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) (06/08/88)
In article <1133@suvax1.UUCP> woodman@suvax1.UUCP (David Woodman) writes: > How do I port minix over to a ps/2 model 80 without having to move all the >source code to ms-dos 5 1/4" and then over to 3.5" disks and than put it >back together again? Such fun. I recently did some converting from 5.25 to 3.5 inch diskettes by getting on a machine with both types flopies and using one of two techniques (note: in my examples, fd0 is 5.25", fd1 is 3.5"): cp /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1 ^^ dd with a large blocking factor is faster gives a 360K 40-track filesystem (or a boot diskette) on a 3.5" diskette (not very efficent), or... mkfs /dev/at1 720 /etc/mount /dev/at1 /user gets out 720K diskette on /user (use cpdir or something from there). 3.5" diskettes look just like a 5.25" to the controler; they've just got twice as many tracks. You may need some hacks to make Minix work at all on the PS/2 (half a computer); check the message archives (index minix-l) on ndsuvm1.bitnet or bugs.nosc.mil for them -- Glen Overby Bitnet: ncoverby@ndsuvax UUCP: {uunet, ihnp4!umn-cs}!ndsuvax!ncoverby