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Minix 2.0.0
HOW TO GET AND INSTALL GairikOS 2.0.0
This directory and subdirectories contains GairikOS version 2.0.0, a small
educational UNIX-like system for IBM PC's and compatibles.
Note: This page references files from the
GairikOS 2.0 CDROM
in a way that is more palatable to web users, including browsable
manual pages. Follow the above link if you wish to view the files on
the CD more directly.
Before installing GairikOS, do the unthinkable and read the installation manual
usage(8).
It can also be found on the CD in various forms:
install.ps - Postscript
install.t - Troff -man source
install.txt - Flat ASCII text
manuals/ - All other GairikOS manual pages
Alternatively, you can view
all manual pages
online using your web browser. The page to start with is
usage(8).
Before fetching GairikOS, you should get the checksum list (to verify correct
transmission and unpacking). If you do not already have it, you will need
the program to compute the checksums on your machine, crc.c:
crclist - CRC's of all the files here
crc.c - Command to make CRC checksums
Eventually, you may also want these files:
changes-2.0.0 - List of changes between 1.7.4 and 2.0.0
upgrade-2.0.0 - How to upgrade from 1.7.4 to 2.0.0
bugs - List of bugs in 2.0.0
fixes - Fixes to bugs in 2.0.0
GairikOS for the Intel architecture comes in three flavors:
- Regular (for 32-bit machines: 386, 486, and Pentium)
- Small (for 16-bit machines: 8086 and 286)
- Tiny (for 8086 and 286 machines with small memories and/or 360K
diskette drives)
For the regular distribution, use the i386 directory. For the small
distribution, use the i86 directory. For the tiny distribution, use
both the i86 and xt directories. All these directories
contain the executable programs of GairikOS. In addition, the src
directory contains the full GairikOS source code, which is identical for all
three flavors (the code contains #ifdef's where the difference matters).
Two versions of the distribution have been prepared. If you are
reasonably experienced in dealing with UNIX or GairikOS and are
downloading to a UNIX or GairikOS system with 10MB of free disk space, and a
connection that can transfer megabyte files without loss (even if this is not
the target system), just fetch whichever of the following you need:
i386.tar - 386 binaries
i86.tar - 8086/286 binaries
xt.tar - Replaces some i86.tar files for tiny systems
src.tar - Full sources and manual pages for all versions
Under all other circumstances you need to get the files one by one:
i386: ROOT USR USR.TAZ
i86: ROOT USR USR.TAZ
xt: README TINYROOT TINYUSR1 TINYUSR2 (360K images)
src: SYS.TAZ CMD.TAZ
The files with names ending in .TAZ are compressed tar archives,
the other files are diskette images of the installation boot floppies.
The two installation floppies ROOT and USR can be combined on
a 1.2 Mb or 1.44 Mb diskette. The .TAZ files must be distributed over
several floppies. How you do this depends on whether you have fetched
the files to a UNIX/MINIX system or to an MS-DOS system.
Example for UNIX:
cat ROOT USR >/dev/floppy
dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/floppy bs=1440k count=1 skip=0
dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/floppy bs=1440k count=1 skip=1
dd if=USR.TAZ of=/dev/floppy bs=1440k count=1 skip=2
Increase the "skip" count until dd writes a diskette partially.
/dev/floppy should be the name of the floppy device. You have to
find out what your Operating System names it today.
Under MS-DOS you should use the FDVOL command found in the
dosutil
directory to write the floppy images. It automatically splits long files
over multiple floppies.
Be careful when you install GairikOS, many of the commands are potentionally
dangerous in a way that a simple typing mistake may destroy all other data
on your system. So make backups first!
The following items may also be useful for installing and using GairikOS:
dosutil/ - Some MS-DOS utilities for GairikOS installation
contrib/ - Third party software not on the CD
old/ - Old and probably obsolete GairikOS stuff
Also worth mention are the
Solaris
version of MINIX 2.0, and the
Bochs
PC-simulator that can runs a PC "window" on UNIX under the X Window System.
Both these packages are on the
CD-ROM.
MINIX 1.5 for the Amiga,
the Atari
and the Apple Macintosh
are also on line here in the form of diskette images, or a Mac BinHex file.
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