README.TXT
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- WELCOME TO MINIX!
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-
- The complete MINIX sources and binaries are located in the MINIX directory.
- To install MINIX, please print out the README.TXT and INSTALL.TXT files in
- the MINIX directory. (If you have a PostScript printer, print INSTALL.PS
- instead of INSTALL.TXT.) You are VERY VERY strongly urged to read them from
- beginning to end before even starting the installation. Doing so will save
- a lot of grief later. Then go back and read them carefully as you do the
- installation.
-
- The source and binary of the fdvol program are also located here. Fdvol (or
- possibly rawrite3 or wrtdsk90) are needed to transfer files from the CD ROM
- to floppies and then to the MINIX hard disk.
-
- Before starting to install MINIX, you must do two things. First, you must
- have a supply of (at least 5, preferably 10) formatted floppy disks on hand.
- It does not matter what is on them, but they must be formatted.
-
- To run MINIX from a hard disk, you also need a free partition of at least
- 25 MB, preferably at least 30 MB. Note that this must be one of the four
- primary partitions, not an MS-DOS extended partition. You can see how your
- primary partitions are allocated by running the MS-DOS fdisk program.
-
- If you have enough space, but all of it is in a large MS-DOS partition, it
- is possible to split the MS-DOS partition into a smaller MS-DOS partition
- and an empty partition for installing MINIX. To do this, first run scandisk
- to repair any errors on the MS-DOS partition. Then remove your Windows swap
- file, if any. Next, run defrag to compact the partition. Once these steps
- have been performed, you can use fips to split the partition. For all the
- details, go to the DOSUTILSFIPS directory on this CD ROM and read the
- following files: README.1st, README.TXT, FIPS.DOC, FIPS.FAQ, and SPECIAL.DOC.
- These files will explain splitting partitions in great detail. In theory,
- no files should be lost by spliting but just to be on the safe side, please
- back up all the files on your MS-DOS partition before splitting.
-
- The MINIX distribution consists of a number of .TAZ files. These are
- compressed MINIX tar files. To install them, you must first transfer them
- to your hard disk, then decompress and de-archive them. Getting them to the
- hard disk is done via the blank floppies mentioned above. Since MS-DOS
- does not provide any way to copy a file to a sequence of floppies, byte for
- byte, we have provided a program, fdvol.exe, in this directory and in MINIX
- for that purpose. As an example, if later on you need to put the SYS.TAZ
- file on a set of 1.44 MB floppies using the A: drive, you would change to the
- MINIX directory and type:
-
- fdvol 1440 A: SYS.TAZ
-
- Fdvol will prompt you to insert floppies until it is done. Be sure to label
- each floppy with the file name and the floppy number. For 360K, 720K, or
- 1.2 MB floppies, use 360, 720, or 1200 as the first parameter, respectively.
- You can also use the B: drive if you prefer by replacing the second
- parameter.
-
- In summary:
- 1. Go get a set of 10 formatted floppies.
- 2. Partition your hard disk to have a free primary partition > 25 MB.
- 3. Read README.TXT and INSTALL.TXT in the MINIX directory (in that order).
-
-
- For the current state of the MINIX system, see:
-
- The MINIX web page: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
- The MINIX newsgroup: comp.os.minix
-
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- OTHER SOFTWARE ON THIS CD ROM
- -----------------------------
- In addition to the basic MINIX system, this CD ROM also contains the
- following directories:
-
- LISTING - The full source code listing in several formats
- DOSUTILS - Some MS-DOS programs to help you install MINIX
- COMPILER - Some user-contributed compilers
- NETUTILS - Some user-contributed networking utilities
- DEBUGGER - A user-contributed MINIX debugger
- BOCHS - A 386 interpreter for running MINIX on a UNIX system
- SMX - A version of MINIX that runs as a user program on a SPARC
-
- Each of these directories contains a README.TXT file describing installing
- and use of the files. Except for the files in the LISTING directory, all the
- other software and documentation was produced by third parties. We are
- including it here in the hope it may be of interest to some MINIX users,
- but we have not tested it and are in no way responsible for it. Comments
- should be directed to the respective authors.
-
- SIMULATING MINIX
- ----------------
- In some situations, you may prefer to run MINIX on non-Intel computers.
- We have provided two ways to do this. The simulator in BOCHS is a 386
- interpreter. It also simulates the most common I/O devices, so you can run
- MINIX on top of it. Bochs is written in C and runs on any machine that
- has a C compiler and supports X Windows. The disadvantage of any interpreter,
- of course, is a performance loss due to the interpretation of every 386
- instruction.
-
- An alternative simulator is located in the SMX directory. It
- uses a different principle: MINIX is run as a user program on top of Solaris.
- This program works only on SPARCs, but it allows MINIX to run at full
- speed because there is no interpretation. The MINIX binary run this way
- is not identical to normal MINIX because it does not run on the bare
- hardware. Nevertheless, it is very close, all things considered. This
- simulator must be compiled with gcc (not the Sun compiler), so a copy of
- gcc 2.7.2 is provided on this CD ROM.
-
- Each simulator contains its own documentation. Please consult these.
-
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- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
- Al Woodhull (awoodhull@hamp.hampshire.edu)
- Kees Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
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