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--- minix_on_the_atari_st [2016/02/29 18:19] – [With an emulator] kdev
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 Minix, the miniature Unix from Andy Tanenbaum was initially released in 1987 for IBM PC and compatibles. In 1991 it was released for the Atari ST line of computers, in version 1.5, among ports for the Amiga, the 68k-based Macintosh, and the Sun Sparc. In 2000, it was relicensed in a [[http://minix1.woodhull.com/LICENSE.html|bsd style license]]
-Minix 1.x was meant to be system call compatible with  Research Unix v7, which explains the small size of the distribution ( 8 MB including source code and C compiler ) and the lack of features. Minix 1.5 comes in two flavours, a  [[http://www.minix3.org/previous-versions/Atari/ | floppy disk distribution]] containing the OS, C compiler and source code, and a [[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/minix/demo/ | bootable demo disk]].\\
+Minix 1.x was meant to be system call compatible with  Research Unix v7, which explains the small size of the distribution (8 MB including source code and C compiler) and the lack of features. Minix 1.5 comes in two flavours, a  [[http://www.minix3.org/previous-versions/Atari/ | floppy disk distribution]] containing the OS, C compiler and source code, and a [[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/minix/demo/ | bootable demo disk]].\\
 As an alternative you could try a recent [[St Mint | FreeMint]] , which is a TOS compatible Unix Clone.
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 {{ :minix_on_atari_st_small.jpg?200|Minix on Atari ST }}
-== Disk image ==
+== Disk image, hardware requirements ==
-Download: [[http://www.subsole.org/static/retrocomputing/minix-1.5r3.img.zip | ACSI diskimage]]
+Download: [[http://www.subsole.org/static/retrocomputing/minix-1.5r3.img.zip | ACSI diskimage]].
+The target platform are 68000 Ataris with 1 MB of RAM, 64MB SD card storage, ST High Resolution (recommended)
-== Hardware requirements ==
-The Target platform are 68000 Ataris with 1 MB of RAM, 64MB SD card storage, ST High Resolution (recommended)
 == Writing the media ==
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     * OsX: follow this tutorial: http://www.embeddedarm.com/support/faqs.php?item=10
-====== How to use ======
+== How to use ==
-To use it you need to boot the Minix kernel with this [[http://www.minix3.org/previous-versions/Atari/disk01 | floppy]], then press "enter" at the boot prompt to load the OS from the hard drive, and login as the root user without password.
+Enter the SD card in the *first* slot of your SD devices, power on your ST, and start the program MINIX.PRG.
+Then press "enter" at the boot prompt to load the OS  and login as 'root' user without password.
+An empty floppy inside the floppy drive will speed up the boot process.
 ===== Documentation =====
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 Man pages for Minix 1.5 on the PC are available from [[http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/study/linux-travel/MINIX-1.5/man.1.5/man-1.5/ | OldLinux]] (as Linux was initially developped from a Minix 1.5 system) You miss the documentation couple of Atari specific command, but for the rest everything applies to ST Minix.
-== Boot sequence ==
+== Boot sequence video ==
 The boot sequence can be seen in this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tPhV8PuGWo|youtube video.]]
-===== With an emulator =====
+== With an emulator ==
 Use the downloaded .img file as an emulated ACSI device, and just boot. If you use the [[http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/|Hatari]] emulator, it would be:
-<code>hatari --acsi st_mint-0.4.img</code>
+<code>hatari --acsi minix-1.5r3.img.zip</code>
 {{:minix-booting.png|Minix booting on Hatari}}