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- From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: trouble with demo disk
- Message-ID: <ARA.92Sep1210005@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 02:00:05 GMT
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- I obtained the minix demo disk for MSDOS systems from an archive in
- australia. My A: drive is 5.25" and although it is high density,
- I don't have any free high density 5.25" floppies that can hold
- the file demo_dsk.ibm. The file is about 368K, which is only a little
- more than the size of low density 5.25" floppies. It seems that with
- a little effort the makers of the demo could have made it just a little
- smaller to fit on all 5.25" floppies, but they didn't.
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- I do have 3.5" high density floppies which I can use in my B: drive, so
- I put the stuff there. When I try to boot up, my machine checks the
- A: drive, then the B: drive, then passes them both by and boots up
- from the hard disk.
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- If I just go into B: drive and try to execute demo_dsk.ibm, DOS tells me
- that it is a bad command or file name, presumably because it doesn't have
- a .com or .bat or .exe extension.
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- So how can I get this thing to work?
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- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
-