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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.

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