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85 lines
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HOW TO GET AND INSTALL MINIX 2.0.0
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This directory and subdirectories contains Minix version 2.0.0, a small
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educational UNIX-like system for IBM PC's and compatibles.
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Note: The files here are the same as found on the MINIX 2.0 CDROM
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in the MINIX directory, except that the surrounding fluff, README's
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and such, is more suited to FTP or WWW users.
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Before installing Minix, do the unthinkable and read the installation
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manual usage(8). It is in the following files in various forms:
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install.ps - Postscript
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install.t - Troff -man source
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install.txt - Flat ASCII text
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manuals/ - All other Minix manual pages
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Alternatively, with a web browser you can view the whole manual
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page set. The 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-2.0.0 - List of changes between 1.7.4 and 2.0.0
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upgrade-2.0.0 - How to upgrade from 1.7.4 to 2.0.0
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bugs - List of bugs in 2.0.0
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fixes/ - Fixes to bugs in 2.0.0
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misc/ - Additional documents: installation example,
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network config, XT installation.
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ack/ - ACK Modula-2 and Pascal compilers
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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). The following
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files can be found in these directories:
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i386: ROOT USR USR.TAZ
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i86: ROOT USR USR.TAZ
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xt: README TINYROOT TINYUSR1 TINYUSR2 (360K images)
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src: SYS.TAZ CMD.TAZ
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The files with names ending in .TAZ are compressed tar archives, the
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other files are diskette images of the installation boot floppies.
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The two installation floppies ROOT and USR can be combined on a
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1.2 Mb or 1.44 Mb diskette. The .TAZ files must be distributed over
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several floppies. Example for UNIX:
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cat ROOT USR >/dev/floppy
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dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/floppy bs=1440k count=1 skip=0
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dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/floppy bs=1440k count=1 skip=1
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dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/floppy bs=1440k count=1 skip=2
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Increase the "skip" count until dd writes a diskette partially.
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/dev/floppy should be the name of the floppy device. You have to
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find out what your Operating System names it today. Under MS-DOS
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you can use the FDVOL command found in the ../dosutil directory to
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write the floppy 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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