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- From: duncane@jumper.mcc.ac.uk (Duncan Entwisle)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Installing Minix 1.5 on Amiga 1000
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- Date: 2 Feb 1996 10:51:00 GMT
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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- Bill Bereza (berezaw@river.it.gvsu.edu) wrote:
- : Hi,
-
- : I've been able to run Minix on my old Amiga 1000, but I'm wondering if
- : it's possible to install Amiga Minix 1.5 on a hard drive. It doesn't seem
- : obvious what would need to be done. Am I stuck just running Minix from
- : floppies on an Amiga?
-
- Well, if the drive is compatiable with the A590 then the chances are you
- can do it - there's updates in nic.funet.fi in their
- <something>/minix/amiga directory - you'll have to recompile the kernel
- yourself - I eventually got it to boot from harddisk as well (rather than
- just recognise after booting from floppy) - but I can't remember how -
- but it was fairly easy - it also allows PAL based Amigas to have 32 lines
- on screen rather than 25 lines.
-
- Hope that helps.
- Duncan.
-
-