[comp.os.minix] MacMinix working

twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer) (11/05/90)

	Well, thanks to Joe Pickert's  postings, I managed to get MacMinix
up and running tonight.  Has anyone else noticed, however, that /usr/man is
empty?  Also, I'm having the same problem with ps that Brent Burton is
having (can't read kernel namelist).

                         
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deo@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steven Furber) (11/05/90)

In article <225430.11843@timbuk.cray.com> twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer) writes:
>Also, I'm having the same problem with ps that Brent Burton is
>having (can't read kernel namelist).

I have that problem too.

c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) (11/05/90)

In article <225430.11843@timbuk.cray.com> twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer) writes:
>	Well, thanks to Joe Pickert's  postings, I managed to get MacMinix
>up and running tonight.  Has anyone else noticed, however, that /usr/man is
>empty?  Also, I'm having the same problem with ps that Brent Burton is
>having (can't read kernel namelist).

What is MacMinix's features, stuff it has, etc.  Is it shareware, commercial,
how mch is it? Who makes it? their name, address, etc.?  What are the
hardware /software requirements?  Please email me or post them here,
I'm interested.
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archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) (11/05/90)

twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer) writes:



>	Well, thanks to Joe Pickert's  postings, I managed to get MacMinix
>up and running tonight.  Has anyone else noticed, however, that /usr/man is
>empty?

/usr/man is not distributed with the diskettes (don't ask, you don't want to
know).  It is available from several of the archives.

Joe Pickert

archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) (11/05/90)

deo@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steven Furber) writes:

>In article <225430.11843@timbuk.cray.com> twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer) writes:
>>Also, I'm having the same problem with ps that Brent Burton is
>>having (can't read kernel namelist).

>I have that problem too.

OK, I get the hint.  I will generate a ps data base and post it.

Joe Pickert

ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (11/06/90)

In article <225430.11843@timbuk.cray.com> twosheds@ferris.cray.com (Jay Vollmer) writes:
>Has anyone else noticed, however, that /usr/man is
>empty?  Also, I'm having the same problem with ps that Brent Burton is
>having (can't read kernel namelist).

/usr/man is supposed to be empty.  What I mean is, no files were supplied
since there is a printed manual.  Of course you can put your own man pages
for your own software there.

All versions of ps need to run with ps -U initially, and this needs a
kernel that has a symbol table.  You have to recompile the kernel to get this.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)