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- From: dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au (David Benn)
- Subject: Amiga MINIX floppy problems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.024622.3197@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>
- Originator: dbenn@leven
- Sender: news@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au
- Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 02:46:22 GMT
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- I just received another copy of the Amiga MINIX disks from Prentice-Hall,
- since my first disks had a large number of bad sectors.
-
- All the latest disks but one copied okay, with a PC (the manual recommends
- you use an Amiga utility which can copy PC disks). When booting the system,
- the boot and root phases go smoothly. However, when inserting the /usr
- disk, I get a heap of sector unreadable (or such like) errors and some disk
- not writable errors after the /dev/dd0 mounted message. Sometimes the login
- prompt comes up and other times not.
-
- My df0: has always been a little flakey, so there could be something wrong
- there (with the write protect problem). On booting MINIX, how does one
- specify the boot drive (ie: before inserting root), eg: dd1? dd2? (rather
- than dd0). I should add that by "flakey" I don't mean severely. df0: just
- sometimes says that a disk is write-protected when it's not.
-
- Also, I've heard that a lot of people have had similar problems with the
- Amiga MINIX disks. Now I'm well aware that there are patches for Minix 1.5.
- But SURELY (!!!!) I don't need the patches JUST to get the darn thing to
- start doing SOMETHING past the /usr mounted stage??? If so, then the $250
- is a total rip-off.
-
- I'd appreciate some responses on this, because I'm getting a little fed up
- with trying to get Minix going on my Amiga.
-
- in earnest...
-
-
-
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- dbenn@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au
- David Benn - Applied Computing, University of Tasmania at Launceston.
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