Minix on VMWare: First Steps

modified: 04 Mar 2003

From aswNS@hampshire.edu Tue Mar  4 08:06:28 2003
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:05:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Al Woodhull <aswNS@hampshire.edu>
Reply-To: "Al Woodhull (Amherst)" <awoodhull@hampshire.edu>
To: Ju Zejian <juzejian@tsinghua.org.cn>
Cc: "Al Woodhull (Amherst)" <awoodhull@hampshire.edu>
Subject: Re: minix under vmware

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Thank you for this interesting note. I intend to experiment with Minix on
VMWare, but have not done so yet. I will post your information on my web
page, it may be helpful to others.

I wish you success in your experiments with Minix,

Albert S. Woodhull

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, ¾ÞÔó½¨ wrote:

> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:32:32 +0800
> From: Ju Zejian  <juzejian@tsinghua.org.cn>
> To: awoodhull@hampshire.edu
> Subject: minix under vmware
>
> Dear Mr. Woodhull,
>   I've installed minix under vmware. I've got some trouble but eventually fixed
> it. I like to tell you about them.
>
> I made the nine floppy disk images in vmware following the instruction of your
> book, but when I was installing, something went wrong and one of the floppy disk
> image file is corrupted, so I had to remake it. Then I found a better way to
> install minix, in which only one floppy disk image file is needed.
>
>    First, I made the Root&Usr image file to install the basic system.
>    After partition the virtual disk correctly, I halted the virtual machine and
> added the minix virtual hard disk to a linux virtual machine, where the minix file
> system was correctly recognized and mounted. So I decompressed the usr.taz and
> cmd.taz directly onto the minix virtual hard disk.
>    Then I halted the linux virtual machine and restarted the minix virtual
> machine, now the system was ok.
>
> Now I'm reading your book <<operating system>> and try to test it on my minix
> virtual machine. Thank you for your and some others' hard work on this book, it
> teaches me so much. I love os programming. But since I am not a student of
> computer science, I think I will encounter many trouble, I hope I could get some
> advice from you then.
>    Thank you for your attention and time.
>
> yours,
> Ju Zejian
> Department of Thermal Engineering
> Tsinghua University, BeiJing, China
> juzejian@tsinghua.org.cn

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