Minix on Bochs on MacOS

modified: 19 Feb 2003

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:13:35 -0500
From: Al Woodhull <aswNS@HAMPSHIRE.EDU>
Reply-To: "Al Woodhull (Amherst)" <awoodhull@HAMPSHIRE.EDU>
To: MINIX-L@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
Subject: Minix 2.0.3 on Bochs on Mac OS

Yesterday I downloaded the current Bochs 2.0.2 i386 emulator for Mac OS
and after just a little bit of fussing around found it was quite easy to
get Minix 2.0.3 running on it.

I've never really been a Mac person, I only recently purchased a Mac (a
used 333 Mhz iMac with Mac OS 8.6 installed). I want to become more
familiar with Macs in general, and I'd also like to see Minix usable on
Macs.

I would very much like to hear from anyone else who has experimented with
Minix on Bochs on a MacIntosh. Of particular interest to me would be
information about how to import and export data to and from Minix. The
iMac has a built in ethernet interface, but the current Mac binary
distribution of the Bochs emulator does not have ethernet support
compiled. My iMac also has a built-in modem and a USB port, for which I
have a Zip drive, but no floppy drive. A way to read and write files to
the iMac hard disk would also be useful.

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| Albert S. Woodhull               |
| Hampshire College, Amherst, MA   |
| awoodhull@hampshire.edu          |
| http://minix1.hampshire.edu/asw/ |
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