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105 lines
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HOW TO GET AND INSTALL MINIX 1.7.4
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This directory and subdirectories contains Minix version 1.7.4, a small
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educational UNIX-like system for IBM PC's and compatibles.
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Before installing Minix, do the unthinkable and read the installation
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manual in the file usage.8. On a UNIX machine you can unpack
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man.tar.Z and use a reasonably smart pager (one that understands
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backspace overstrikes) to read the man pages. The same manual
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pages can be found in man.zip as flat text for use under MS-DOS.
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Note that the ZIP file contains subdirectories that you may or may not
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want to keep intact. These manual pages are preformatted to 66 lines
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per page and should be send to the printer uninterpreted.
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man.tar.Z - Installation manual pages (UNIX)
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man.zip - Installation manual pages (MS-DOS)
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Alternatively, by WWW you can view the whole manual page set. The
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page to start with is usage(8).
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Before fetching Minix, you should get the checksum list (to verify
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correct transmission and unpacking). If you do not already have it,
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you will need the program to compute the checksums on your
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machine, crc.c:
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crclist - CRC's of all the files here
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crc.c - Command to make CRC checksums
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Eventually, you may also want these files:
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changes-1.7.4 - List of changes between 1.7.2 and 1.7.4
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upgrade-1.7.4 - How to upgrade from 1.7.x to 1.7.4
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bugs - List of bugs in 1.7.4
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fixes/ - Fixes to bugs in 1.7.4
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Minix for the Intel architecture comes in three flavors:
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- Regular (for 386, 486, and Pentium machines)
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- Small (for 8086 and 286 machines)
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- Tiny (for 8086 and 286 machines with small memories and/or 360K
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diskette drives)
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For the regular distribution, use the i386 directory. For the small
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distribution, use the i86 directory. For the tiny distribution, use the
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both the i86 and xt directories. All these directories contain the
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executable programs of Minix. In addition, the src directory contains
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the full Minix source code, which is identical for all three flavors (the
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code contains #ifdef's where the difference matters).
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Two versions of the distribution have been prepared. If you are
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reasonably experienced in dealing with UNIX or Minix and are
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downloading to a UNIX or Minix system with 10MB of free disk space,
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and a connection that can transfer megabyte files without loss (even
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if this is not the target system), just fetch whichever of the following
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you need:
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i386.tar - 386 binaries
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i86.tar - 8086/286 binaries
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xt.tar - Replacement files for tiny systems
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src.tar - Full sources and manual pages for all versions
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Under all other circumstances, use the second distribution, which
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consists of many 720K floppy disk images (you can also use bigger
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diskettes, but remember that the size of the images is still 720K).
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i386: ROOT USR USR.01 USR.02 ... USR.06
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i86: ROOT USR USR.01 USR.02 ... USR.06
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xt: README TINYROOT TINYUSR1 TINYUSR2 (360K images)
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src: SYS.01 ... CMD.01 ...
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The USR.nn, SYS.nn, and CMD.nn series of diskette images were
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created by commands like this one, so they are just a compressed tar
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file cut to pieces:
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tar cf - * | compress | vol 720 /dev/fd0
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(The usage(8) manual uses the names USR.TAZ, SYS.TAZ and
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CMD.TAZ to refer to these floppy sets, because those will be their
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names on the upcoming Minix CD-ROM.)
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The two installation floppies can be combined on a 1.2 Mb or 1.44 Mb
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diskette, the other images can be combined on 1.44 Mb floppies,
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turning them into 1440K images:
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cat ROOT USR >/dev/fd0
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cat USR.01 USR.02 >/dev/fd0 (odd/even pairs)
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cat USR.03 USR.04 >/dev/fd0
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...
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cat SYS.01 SYS.02 >/dev/fd0
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...
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cat CMD.01 CMD.02 >/dev/fd0
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...
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/dev/fd0 is a random floppy device name. You have to find out what
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your Operating System names it today. Under MS-DOS you can use
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the WrtDsk command in the ../dosutil directory to write the floppy
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images.
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Be careful when you install Minix, many of the commands are
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potentionally dangerous in a way that a simple typing mistake may
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destroy all other data on your system. So make backups first!
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Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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