This is the MINIX 2.0.2 pre-installed HDD image file for Bochs PC emulator.
If you use this with Bochs, you will taste MINIX as soon as possible ;-)
Enjoy!
http://sourceforge.jp/frs/index.php?group_id=127&release_id=538
[What's Bochs?]
"Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator"
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
(README.txt)
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MINIX 2.0.2 image for Bochs
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$Revision: 1.2 $ by minix-up project
http://minix-up.sourceforge.jp/
Test environment
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* Windows 2000 + Bochs 1.3 / 1.4 (both font patched)
* FreeBSD 4.5-REL + Bochs 1.4
(builded from corrent /usr/ports/emulators/bochs)
NOTE: MINIX and Bochs
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(1) Bochs 1.4 can not boot MINIX 2.0.2 FD (ROOT.MNX).
You shuold use Bochs 1.3 when you install MINIX 2.0.2.
For more detail:
http://sourceforge.jp/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&projec
t_task_id=142&group_id=127&group_project_id=70
(2) Font problem about Bochs (win32 only)
Bochs win32 (1.2.1 to 1.4) have a font problem about
bitmap-font data 0, shoud be ' ' but '@'. You must
compile bochs with a patch below, or edit bochs.exe
binary (may the patch tells you what to do).
For more detail:
http://sourceforge.jp/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&projec
t_task_id=141&group_id=127&group_project_id=70
Files
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30M.sample -- HDD image file, MINIX 2.0.2 already installed
('30M.sample' is default filename for bochs)
.bochsrc -- Bochs options file
('.bochsrc' is default filename for bochs)
.bochsrc.org -- Bochs options file, original (from bochs 1.3)
bximage.script -- bximage.exe log that create "30M.sample"
patch.vga.bitmap.h -- Patch for font problem '@', at
'font/vga.bitmap.h'
How to use
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1. Put '30M.sample' and '.bochsrc' into bochs direcotory
2. Run bochs, return, return, and return.
-- Remember, win32 bochs needs font patch!
3. When bochs shut down quietly, see 'bochsout.txt' for detail.
-- Usually the position of BIOS and VGABIOS images
are differ from binary and source distribution.
