Hardware : Laptop COMPAQ LTE 286, 640 kb, 40 Mb, 1.44 Mb floppy drive.
OS : Minix 2.0.2 (under BSD licence).
- TINYROOT.MNX
- TINYUSR1.MNX
- TINYUSR2.MNX
- USR.TAZ
- SYS.TAZ
- CMD.TAZ (optionnal)
Press the key =
Type fd0 at the end of the line to complete /dev/ (it will give /dev/fd0).
Login as root
Type exec setup
If needed, make Enter to displays all infos
Choose keyboard. In my case, I type french
On the partition tables : /dev/hd0 appears, type r to load it if you choose to use all the disk (it is my case).
With the arrow keys, go to the TYPE partition of hd1 and change the number with the keys + and - to 81 (Minix) instead of 06 (MS-DOS). Hd1 must have the flag "*" which indicates that it is bootable.
Type q and y to the question "Save the partition table?"
Complete the name of the new Minix partition : hd1 (to give : /dev/hd1).
You have now :
Root subpartition: /dev/hd1a 1440 kb
/usr subpartition: /dev/hd1c rest of hd1
Make ENTER : Minix is installing on the HD
The script asks for memory size. Here this is : 640
Login as root
Insert the TINYUSR2.MNX floppy
Type mount /dev/fd0 /fd0
Type cpdir -v /fd0 /usr
Type umount /dev/fd0
Type mount /dev/hd1a /root
Type cp -p /usr/tmp/* /root/minix
Type halt
Login as root
Insert the USR.TAZ floppy 1 (there are 3 USR.TAZ 1.44 floppies)
Type exec setup /usr
Insert the SYS.TAZ floppy 1 (there are 2 SYS.TAZ 1.44 floppies)
Type exec setup /usr
It's done ! 28 Mb are free on the HD.
Create a new user called "dueze" : adduser dueze other /usr/dueze