Dear mentors,
I have created a Debian package with which it is possible to
conveniently install and run Minix running on QEMU. It might be useful
for those, who want to look at it closer and play with it.
Package name: minix
Version: 3.1.2.3
Upstream author: various people, copyright holder is Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
License: http://www.minix3.org/license.html
(it applies to the `minix.img.gz' file)
The package is native. The harddisk image was produced from the Minix3
bootable CD version 3.1.2.
Useful properties
- (of course) straightforward installation
of fully configured Minix3 system
- networking over QEMU is enabled
- Handy `/usr/bin/minix' script
- `minix' script manual page
- integration to the debian menu system (Apps/Programming/Minix)
- the QEMU harddisk image could grow on demand (up to 1GB).
Initially it occupies 59MB.
- various people using the same computer might run Minix
in the same way but each could have a different
harddisk image.
Possible problems:
- the manual page might contain grammatical errors
- since the networking over QEMU is enabled by default,
the problems might arise when someone tried to
install this package on a computer with no
Internet connection. In that case the Minix
configuration files related to networking
must be altered manually.
(The debian package itself has 11MB).
Here is the *.deb file:
http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/devel/minix_3.1.2.4_i386.deb
The `minix' package can be obtained from the repository
deb http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/debian/ testing main
For `stable', there is a available distinct version (because of the
changes of qemu command line parameters)
deb http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~kosik/debian/ stable main
Any suggestions are welcome. If it had sense to add it to the Debian
project, I would gladly try to polish it to an acceptable state.
Kind regards
--
Matej Kosik
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