I ftp'd the minix 1.5 demo disk with the intention of trying it
out on my (underpowered) PC at home. It is a generic clone 286 with
1MB RAM (640K, 384K), Hercules graphics, and an 80MB disk.
Well, I got the binary file (demon_dsk.ibm), the documentation,
and rawrite.exe. I then downloaded (in binary mode) this stuff to a
directory on my PC's hard drive. I then formatted a 360K 5 1/4 inch
disk and ran rawrite. I supplied rawrite with the filename (demo_dsk.ibm)
and the disk to write on (A:). It processed through the file and finished
with no errors. So then I <Ctrl-Alt-Del> rebooted with my new minix demo
boot floppy.
It started up with something like:
'Booting Minix 1.5 (c) 1991 Prentice-Hall'
Then a couple of seconds of floppy-reading... Then:
'Read error - Automatic reboot'
And it started booting over again. It keeps doing this forever. Yuck :(
I thought since it was a read error maybe the diskette was bad. So I
formatted another and went through the rawrite process again. Rebooted and
still the same problem.
I'd appreciate any ideas and/or suggestions you kind net.people can come
up with. My goal in trying all this is to see if it is feasible to run
Minix on my woefully underpowered PC at home. If it works and isn't TOO
slow, I'm going to get the 'full' version from Prentice-Hall.
Help! :)
Grant
Grant Totten, Programmer/Analyst, Trent University, Peterborough Ontario
GTo...@TrentU.CA Phone: (705) 748-1653 FAX: (705) 748-1246
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