Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!mmdf From: EPRF%SNYCENVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Peter Flass) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix on sun386i -- status Message-ID: <21354@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 9 Aug 89 12:38:00 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 23 On Mon, 7 Aug 89 16:31:53 GMT Marty said: >I'm using v1.3b. > ... (stuff) ... >Trying to boot Minix, it just hunk -- does v1.3b run off 3 1/2" 720k floppy >disks? > I have had no problems with 1.2 (assume 1.3x should be even better) on 3.5" 720k floppies - the code to support them is in floppy.c. I *HAVE* had a problem with the system I want to run MINIX on - an AT&T 6300WGS. Apparently some machines are a lot less IBM-like in their FDC's than in other areas. - Pete +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | PETER FLASS BITNET: EPRF@SNYCENVM (PREFERRED) | | DIRECTOR OF COMPUTING SERVICES INTERNET: ESCFLASS@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU | | SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE AT&TNET: (518)587-2100 X350 | | 2 UNION AVENUE | | SARATOGA SPRINGS NY 12866 "THIS SPACE FOR RENT" | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+