[comp.os.minix] more questions?

tford@convexs.UUCP (04/03/87)

I was wondering if anybody has rebuilt minix from the sources.

I read on this news group some talk about needing a PC/IX system
to be able to rebuild a kernel.  Is that true?
I just received the disks for minix and after looking through it, I
see some makefiles for rebuilding minix under PC/IX, minix, and MSDOS
using the CI86 compiler.  Has anybody done it under minix?
My minix disks are labeled version 1.1, do I have an newer release maybe?

Has anybody tried minix with an RLL controller?


Thanks,
Tom Ford
Convex Computer Corp.
...!convex!tford

bdale@winfree.UUCP (04/08/87)

In article <132200001@convexs> tford@convexs.UUCP writes:
>I was wondering if anybody has rebuilt minix from the sources.

Yes.  At least, I've rebuilt the kernel from all sources about 4 times now
on my Toshiba T1100+, mostly to get my 720k disk driver hacks to work.  I
had no trouble at all.  Read in the manual appendix where it talks about
rebuilding from sources, and xref to the makefiles on disk... There were
a couple of minor differences on my disks, but nothing even a novice kernel
hacker couldn't figure out... I don't even remember what they were.

All rebuilds done with Minix.


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