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Re: minixfs boot disk?

 >On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
 >
 >> I've just been thinking, since Minix is a loadable FS, should an 
 >> unexplainable HD crash happen (corrupted HD driver?), one would
 >> need some sort of a boot floppy to recuperate the HD data before
 >> reformatting.
 >> 
 >> Assides from the HD driver, mint.prg and minix.xfs,
 >> what else should I put on this boot floppy? 
 >
 >I would add fsck, a decent disc editor, perhaps a shell with a few
 >small tools that make life easier.

What disk editors support Minix? 
Those I have all try to read/write/repair the FAT table.

For a shell, I have TCSH. Maybe I should use BASH instead?


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