• Minix 1 and 2, quick-and-dirty editions

    From david.given@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 13 11:42:33 2017
    I don't know if anybody here still cares, but I seem to have found myself having created a Minix distribution.

    https://github.com/davidgiven/minix2

    It consists of unpacked versions of Minix 1.7.5 and 2.0.4, plus a set of scripts to allow creation of installation media, plus another set of scripts which will bundle everything up into a qemu image and then extract the contents again afterwards; this
    is to allow you to do builds from inside Minix but still use the editor on your PC.

    The main purpose is that I can:

    - edit a file from vim on Linux
    - rebuild Minix and all the binaries
    - generate a floppy image which I can boot and see if it works
    - check in changed source file and updated binaries
    - push.

    ...and then, of course, undo it all again afterwards when it goes wrong.

    It requires Linux. Right now it only supports i86 because that's the only architecture I'm interested in.

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