Hi there again Yes, I do that all the time (I have an ESDI drive that does not seem You can ftp the Minix demo diskette from various places. For instance plains.nodak.edu in directory pub/Minix/????/demo (I haven't tried, this info is from a posting by Linus). You get a rawrite program with the demo that you can use to write the images on a diskette. 3.5" work well. Mika

I have started init/getty/login stuff ;-) mainly based on bsd-reno stuff. arl *FLAME ON* I TOLD EARLIER THAT NIC.FUNET.FI IS HAVING REORGANIZATIONS .. WHY DO YOU STILL CRY ? ;-) *FLAME OFF* nic.funet.fi is _absolutely_ the best FTP site. Problems _are_ going to be corrected. nic FTP file areas: Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/rs4c 1015790 693649 322141 68% /ftp/disk1 /dev/rs2c 1015790 743216 ...

If no one else has volunteered yet, I will take a stab at modifying init to read /etc/ttys and fork a login for each. This means of course writing login.c as well. If someone else has started this already, please stop me now!

A quick scan using Archie shows that none of the FTP sites for Linux that it knows about are on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. In the hopes of reducing inter-atlantic traffic and reducing the load on nic.funet.fi, I've made Linux-0.10 available for anonymous FTP on TSX-11.MIT.EDU (18.172.1.2). I will make an attempt to keeps things reasonably current. I've just recently heard about Linux from the Hurd mailing list, and from looking at the source code it looks very, very exciting. I haven't mana...