Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mephisto!udel!mmdf From: archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com (Vincent Archer) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Demo version of Minix Message-ID: <20419@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 28 May 90 09:19:58 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 32 Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) writes: > archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com (Vincent Archer) writes: > >"Is there a demo or freeware version of Minix on the Atari ST? > > Actually, as it turns out, we are working on a demo disk right now. > It will hold the full OS (binary), the shell, mined, and about 20 > of the smallest filters, and come with a 30 page manual. It is > intended to give a feel for what MINIX/UNIX is, and also to allow > prospective users to see if it at least boots on their machine. I'm happy to hear about it. That makes my life easier. So I'll make yours too, by posting on Friday (i.e. as soon as I've finished the documentation) my mkboot package for the Atari. (I dropped gather2. Can't find the damned bug. I'll rewrite it from scratch next week). Basically, it will removes the need of a special disk with with a filesystem part (the RAMIMAGE copy) and a minix image part. With mkboot, you make a Minix Filesystem floppy bootable (Such a disk loads the /minix.img file from disk and starts it). You just add rm /minix.img to the /etc/rc script to recover ~80K on your ram disk, and here's a stand-alone Minix disk! Robert L. Bailey also writes: > Is a demo disk available for the PC? If so, how does one get it? If you look at the code, you'll find some #define intended for demo versions. I think there was one for 1.3, so there should be one for 1.5 too... Vincent Vincent Archer | Email:archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com "People that are good at finding excuses are never good at anything else"