README.TXT
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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)