Re: Minix for the old C= PCs

I have 1.5, but I am unsure what systems it will work.  I need to test it.
It's on two disks. (or at least my copy is two disks)

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:42 PM,  <Ruud@baltissen.org> wrote:
> > Hallo allemaal,
> >
> > I liked that idea: running Minix on an old C= PC. Anyway, for anyone
> > interested as well, I found this link:
> >
> >    http://www.minix-vmd.org/source/std/
>
> Nice find.
>
> I've recently (before this thread) been re-reading "Operating Systems:
> Design and Implementation" because I need to know more about the
> insides of things.  It's still packed full of great stuff!
>
> > Strange thing: the directories 1.1 and 1.2 contain directories with
> > floppy images. The later ones don't.
>
> Did 1.5 and later grow too large to work on a floppy-only machine?
>
> > So I wondered, does this you
> > mean have to compile your own executables from then on?
>
> I would think that's what it means.
>
> > Before I can find out my self, I have to figure out how to turn
> > those images into real floppies. I completely forgot that last
> > summer my "image server", an old Compaq ???whatever???, brooke down.
> > OK, another challenge for the weekend :)
>
> That reminds me, I need to fix my "imaging machine" - a 486 DOS PC
> with 5.25" and 3.5" and a NIC.  Unfortunately for me, the last time I
> was messing around with it, I caused a short and blew out the VLB disk
> controller.  I have a spare.  I just need to spend some time fiddling
> with it.
>
> Mostly, I've been reading/writing CBM and Apple floppies, so I've been
> using my ZoomFloppy and trying to get ADTpro to work (I'm borrowing a
> KryoFlux that should arrive today).
>
> And for as many times as I've read the book, I never have set up MINIX
> from scratch.  I should do that at least once.  I even paid for the
> Amiga floppies when Prentice Hall discontinued them, but I never tried
> to get Amiga MINIX working either.  :-/
>
> -ethan
>
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