Minix Demos and Alternative Installations modified: 12 July 2006

For MINIX 3 go to http://www.minix3.org. (Minix 3 released Oct 2005)

This directory contains alternatives to the standard Minix installations.

• BochsImage
  Minix 2.0.4 package for use with Bochs emulator.
• BootableCD
  Bootable CD-ROM, starts Minix 2.0.4 in 32 MB RAM disk (Korzynski et al).
• OneFloppy
  This directory contains modified single floppy disk images, based on the Minix installation boot floppy, but modified for more general use.
• Qemu for teaching
  A small precompiled image of Minix 2.0.0 for Qemu has been developed at the University of Patras, Greece. Available are the installer (link above) and HowTo documents for Linux and Windows host systems.
• VMWarePlayer
  This directory contains a compressed VMWare virtual machine to run Minix 2.0.4 on the free VMWare Player. It has been updated with all available patches for Minix 2.0.4 as well as support for networking and exchanging data between the guest and host operating systems using the host clipboard (new May 2006).
• VirtualPC
  This contains a Minix 2.0.4 image for Virtual PC, contributed by Gary Driggs. This version starts FreeDOS on the virtual system, and then boots DOSMinix.
• bigRAM
  A four-floppy disk set that provides temporary installation of a large subset of Minix 2.0.0 on a large RAM disk (10M RAM required).
• bigRAM203
  A single floppy disk that boots Minix 2.0.3 into an 8M RAM disk. This is a small subset of Minix, but it includes useful utilities not part of the standard ROOT+USR boot disk.
• ppp16
  DOSMinix images for 16-bit Minix, including PPP support (from Claudio Tantignone).
• ppp32
  DOSMinix images for 32-bit Minix, including PPP support (from Claudio Tantignone)..