Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX 1.1 - 1.5 and more Message-ID: Date: 6 May 91 08:56:42 GMT Article-I.D.: mi.klamer.673520202 References: <1991May4.114742.485@debet.nhh.no> <11878@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Organization: University of Twente, BSC-El Lines: 22 In <11878@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes: >I don't know what your time is worth or how much you will >enjoy the patching process. I would guess it took me a couple >of weekends to move from 1.1 to 1.5.10. That was doing the >patches on a Sun workstation. Certainly in the process you >learn the directory structure of MINIX. I don't know about the differences in upgrading from ST minix 1.1 to 1.5.10 #3 and upgrading on a PC, but upgrading can be done much faster. At home, on my ST with HD (is essential, or you should have losts of time) it typically takes me about 4 hours. (typically because i have the habit to remove unwanted files ;-( ). This is the time for unpacking (you need approx 10Mb), patching && recompilation of the kernel. So not counting recompilation of libc.a and all the commands (which for some i >>still<< don't have compiled) Klamer -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer