Hi Guys,
I have recently purchased a 'Operating System' Book by Andrew Tanenbaum.

its on minix.

however, I dont have a spare system on which I can install minix, so I found out that one can also install minix on virtual systems.. ie. vmware and qemu etc. I tried on both vmware and qemu, several times, but I got disgusted with my failures..

Any pointers or helpful tutorials would be appreciated.

thanks in advance

I found this tutorial for installing minix on Win XP using Bochs an open source IA-32 Emulator. You can get it from here

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7303

Hope this helps!

You can go for Microsoft Virtual PC, if you are boggled with all the features of VMWare. Its very simple to work with.

Download Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Info Link: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

PS: Virtual PC 2004 is a 45 day trial version.

Hi Max Steel,

I have a original licenced version of VMware workstation. I already run linux on it. If there could be a tutorial on the vmware or qemu, it would be fine, or if some one has already done it perhaps.

The problem with Bochs is, that I have already tried, and it always never boots up after installation.

thanks all the same..

saneax, not sure if you read this already, but try the tutorial mentioned at:

http://web.syr.edu/~mshang/InstallMinixOverVMware.doc

If that doesn't or you tried it already, take a look at these other how-tos found by Google.

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the virtual pc 2004 is now freeware and can be downloaded from the microsoft website. go here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en or if you want you can also now download the virtual pc 2007 (which is only a beta version at the moment and must be downloaded from microsoft connect!)

Linux is pretty much Minix with all the useless stuff taken away. Linux was originally used to mimic Minix.

Minix is obsolete to today's standards (Except Minix 3).

xboxrulz

Seems like I had quite an outdated information on that. Just the fact that I dumped VPC for the faster & more powerful VMWare a long long time ago. Lets see what v 2007 has to offer.

Hi WeaponX



Thanks for the link, it was exactly what I was looking for.
I tried it overnight and I have the minix running,

cheers


Hi,



Is that correct ?

Minix I have read was originally written for students to understand OS. Linux sprouted from there independently as an alternative OS, which has a feel of Unix.

cheers