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+Suggestions on installing Minix on a machine with little memory.
+
+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
+
+	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
+
+	chsh /bin/sh
+
+to change the login shell of bin from ash to the much smaller sh.  Log
+out, log back in, and use
+
+	exec make xxx
+
+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)