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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