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InstallationTo install Minix on the lab computers, see the document "A Document about Minix on Bocks/Linux by Andrew Wong" on the course website. For information on how to install Minix on a Windows XP computer, see the document titled "A Document about Minix on Bocks/WinXP by S. J. Engle" (alt) on the course website. Most required downloads can be found at http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/downloads/. MountingInstructions on how to mount the physical and virtual floppy drives under Minix can be found towards the bottom of the "A Document about Minix on Bocks/Linux by Andrew Wong" document. You must learn how to at least mount the virtual floppy drive to hand in homework. Also, it is highly recommended you back up your files to the virtual floppy. With the modifications you may be making to the Minix kernel, it is likely you may have to reinstall Minix (and thus will lose any files not backed up to a physical or virtual floppy). Remember, you MUST mount the virtual floppy before saving any files to folder mount /dev/fd1 /fd1 to your Shutting Down MinixSeveral people have already corrupted their Minix installations by not shutting down Minix properly. If you are getting file system checks every time you start Minix, then you are most likely not shutting down properly. This will eventually lead to problems. To shutdown, you first want to type the command: shutdown in Minix, and then hit the power-off button. (Dont forget to unmount any mounted drives first!) Editors in MinixThe following is a list of editors compiled from the 'Text Editors' post on the newsgroups, and the Minix website.
For more information on these text editors, please refer to the Adding a System Call in MinixYou can find a brief guide on how to add a simple system call in Minix here. |