bae@lll-aftac.arpa (Hwa Jin Bae) (11/02/87)
I have been with the comp.os.minix news group since its beginning
and somehow missed the mailing list announcement. Maybe there never
was one. Source group is needed badly. A mailing list would do
a lot of us good as well. If any of you know of any existing
minix mailing list please drop me a line or better yet just
put me in!
I have been trying to make my AT clone boot up either MINIX or DOS
from hard disk and last week I ended up crashing my disk. The system
did not even recognize the existence of my hard disk. I had it
partitioned into four pieces (one for MS-DOS, one for boolblok and
kernel stuff for booting, one for /usr, one for /user) and was
planning to 'build' the boot disk on the second partition and
boot the machine from the second partition. Has anyone done this?
I know long time ago (a few months ago) someone posted an article
along with some fixes regarding this process. Maybe that person(s)
can help.
In the light of products such as VP/ix from Interactive, how about
providing a MS-DOS as a running task within MINIX? This would
allow switching between DOS and MINIX universe. BIOS will need to
be modified along with kernel. I am not an expert on this. Any
of you have any technical opinions?
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Hwa Jin Bae (415) 463-6865 | Control Data Corp.
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