Re: [hosers-talk] heh

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> > Thus spake "Jon Stewart":
> > > I booted my P4 2.8GHz work machine into Minix 2.0.3 tonight.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, the install floppy images don't have dd installed on them.
>  
> > > But I was able to find a binary for dd, so tomorrow I am going to use a 
> > > hex editor to overwrite some useless binary on the install floppy (e.g. 
> > > setup) with dd. Then I can write the image to a floppy and have a boot 
> > > floppy for 286s that will let me write hard disk images back out to flopp
> y 
> > > as dd will have been loaded onto the ram disk.
> > > 
> > > Somedays my job is boring and somedays it's just weird.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Jon
> > 
> > So why do you want to do that with 286s?
> 
> 
> A guy I work with had to make disk images from 10 old 286s with ~10MB hard 
> drives. He had a more serious issue, though, as he couldn't find a machine 
> with a functional bios that would see the old MFM drives. But next time we 
> need to image a 286, we'll be set. :-)

I figured that you had a reason for doing it. What I wanted to know was
why you're doing whatever it is with 286s, instead of something newer.


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