Minix Preparation Lab A
Installing SMX

Requirement:

In this lab session, you are expected to get familiar with the SMX/Minix operating system. You are expected to finish two tasks:  

    (1) SMX installation
    (2) Simple operations of SMX

For the first task: the installation of SMX, I will give you a step-by-step instructions on how to install the operating system, how to configure the environmental variables, and how to run it, etc. When the lab session is over, you are expected to be quite familiar with the procedures of installing SMX, and you should have no problem re-installing it by yourself. This will be essential for the implementation of your future projects in this course. You should finish this task individually, and I will be in the lab help you in case there is any problem. 

For the second task: play around with SMX, you are expected to get familiar with the OS by playing around with it. SMX is a unix-like system, so many commands are same (or at least similar). The next lab session will primarily focus on simple unix commands, but I hope before that, you could play around with smx to get a feeling about it.

Time & Location:

Time: 01/27/2005 (Thursday), 1:00pm~4:00pm
Location: Star Lab in CST 1-211

Helpful documents:

SMX -- The Solaris Port of Minix by Paul Ashton

Installing SMX on Solaris: A step by step illustration

SunOS -- Minix: a presentation  

Resources on Minix/SMX

Andy Tanenbaum's Minix page -- official Minix site
Here is a Andy Tanenbaum's rebuttal to Ken Brown on the relationship between Minix and Linux. Basically he is saying: "Linux copied from Minix? No way! Because the design idea behind Minix is far much superior than that of Linux".
    And let's see how Andy Tanenbaum fights with Linus Torvalds over Minix vs Linux

Al Wood's minix website from New Hampshire
Minix on the net
Minix.org
Subscribe to Minix mailing list
Tamacomm's Minix Kernel Tour

Last updated: 01/24/2005