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