rmason@netcom.COM (Bob Mason) (03/20/91)
Bob Eager outlines a revision of a method given in the first reference for getting boot sectors onto a floppy diskette. jai@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Benchiao Jai) states that the NYU Ultra Lab is running MINIX as a process under DOS. Our MINIX-OS class is presently using floppies to boot the system (v1.2) on AT-clones. We would like to eliminate all booting from floppies by recabling the drives. This is needed to prevent the spread of the stoned virus on the C: partition (Minix is on the D: partition). I see at least two solution strategies: either start up MINIX as a process under DOS (as NYU Ultra does), or have MINIX booting directly off the D: partition. The second method requires us to put MINIX boot sectors on the D: partition and provide some "user transparent" switch-active-partition software that is accessible from either partition. Perhaps a .logoff file on the MINIX side could access the switch program directly, since we run DOS most of the time. If anyone has experience using these methods, or any others, to eliminate booting from floppy, please post a message to this newsgroup. We need your help. You can also send mail directly to me (rmason@netcom.com) or to Ken Majithia (majithia@calstate.bitnet). Thanks very much. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Mason - Computer Engineering student at SJSU. (rmason@netcom.com) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------