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Minix/1.7.5/MINIX/README.TXT

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+The installation guide can be found in INSTALL.TXT
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+More manual pages are in MAN\CAT*\*
+If a manual page refers to, say boot(8), then the manual page for boot
+can be found in MAN\CAT8\BOOT.8.  Under Minix you can type 'man 8 boot'
+if you have installed the SYS.TAZ set.
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+For a 386, 486, or Pentium using 1.44 MB floppies on drive A: you must make
+four sets of floppies.  Go to the MINIX directory and type each of these
+commands in turn.  You will be prompted to insert floppies.  You do not have
+to install SYS.TAZ and CMD.TAZ initially, but life is much simpler if you
+have 9 floppies and make each set right now.  Be sure to label each floppy
+correctly.
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+        fdvol 1440 A: i386\ROOT i386\USR    (Combined boot floppy)
+        fdvol 1440 A: i386\USR.TAZ          (Base system on 3 floppies)
+        fdvol 1440 A: SYS.TAZ               (System sources on 2 floppies)
+        fdvol 1440 A: CMD.TAZ               (Commands sources on 3 floppies)
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+Use 1200 to specify 1.2M floppies.  Likewise for 720k floppies, except
+that you have to put ROOT and USR installation images on two separate
+floppies:
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+        fdvol 720 A: i386\ROOT              (Separate ROOT and USR)
+        fdvol 720 A: i386\USR
+        fdvol 720 A: i386\USR.TAZ          
+        fdvol 720 A: SYS.TAZ              
+        fdvol 720 A: CMD.TAZ            
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+The i86 directory contains the installation and base system material to
+install the 16-bits version of Minix for old XTs and 286 based ATs.  If
+the intended machine has little memory or a 360k drive then read
+XT\README.TXT and use the installation floppy images in the XT directory
+instead of the regular ROOT and USR.
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+After you have installed MINIX, you may wish to install some of the other
+files on the CD ROM.  The SMX and BOCHS programs are simulators that sun
+on UNIX workstations, so you must transfer them there using a modem and
+unpack and use them there.  The other .TAZ files should be copied to
+floppies using fdvol.  To reconstruct a .TAZ file on a sequence of 1.44 MB
+floppies via drive A:, boot MINIX, log in, and type:
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+        vol -r 1440 /dev/fd0 | zcat | tar xf -
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+Please note that the MINIX program is called vol, not fdvol.
+For drive B:, use /dev/fd1 instead of /dev/fd0.  The result will be a
+fully-expanded and decompressed file tree.
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+In summary:
+    1. You should now have a BOOT floppy (or ROOT + USR floppies).
+    2. A set of floppies for USR.TAZ, SYS.TAZ, and CMD.TAZ.
+    3. A free hard disk partition, or at least enough space not in any
+       partition that you can create a new partition in this space.
+    4. Now read INSTALL.TXT and follow it carefully.
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Minix/1.7.5/MINIX/XT/README.TXT

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+Suggestions on installing Minix on a machine with little memory.
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+The file TINYROOT is a small replacement for the ROOT image that is
+needed if your machine has only one floppy drive and less than 2
+megabytes of memory.  You can use it to boot your machine, but you
+should use ROOT for the installation if you can.
+
+If your floppy drive is only 360 kb then have to use TINYROOT for ROOT,
+and TINYUSR1 for USR.  The very last step of the installation, filling
+/usr from USR.nn, will fail, because you need some commands that are on
+TINYUSR2.  You have to copy those commands into the /usr tree (mount the
+floppy and cpdir the lot).  TINYUSR2 also contains the kernel image
+used for TINYROOT in the tmp directory that you can put into /minix/.
+So when 'setup' suggests that you type 'halt' do this instead:
+
+	mount /dev/fd0 /fd0		# Mount TINYUSR2
+	cpdir -v /fd0 /usr		# Add its contents to /usr
+	umount /dev/fd0			# Take TINYUSR2 out of the drive
+	mount /dev/hd2a /root		# Mount the hard disk root (hd2a??)
+	cp -p /usr/tmp/* /root/minix	# Copy the kernel image in place
+	halt				# Continue where you left off
+
+A machine with only 640 kb memory will have trouble to run the
+installation script.  Use
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+	exec setup
+
+to overlay the login shell of root with the script.  A few things may
+still fail, but nothing critical ("sleep: not found").
+
+If you want to compile a new kernel as bin use
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+	chsh /bin/sh
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+to change the login shell of bin from ash to the much smaller sh.  Log
+out, log back in, and use
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+	exec make xxx
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+If it still fails then you have to make things bit by bit by running
+make in subdirectories.
+--
+						Kees J. Bot  (kjb@cs.vu.nl)