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From: go_spam_yourself@iglou1.iglou.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Disks for Prentice Hall Minix 1.5?
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In message <3418180D.6CEB3CD7@halcyon.com>,
  djenner@halcyon.com (David C. Jenner) wrote:
>I recently saw that the older versions are now publicly available, so I
>thought I would ask if anyone has the disks and could copy one or more
>for me.  The problem I am having is this: after booting up the first
>disk, inserting the second disk, and pressing "=", I get a succession of

Are you sure that is what you do?  In Minix 2.0, you don't change disks
before pressing "=", you wait until it asks for the device name for root, and
type "fd0" (or "fd1" if you have two floppy drives).


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