(updated 9/6/01)
A Verson of Unix that Runs on Macs Without Reformatting or Partitioning your Drive
MacMinix is a Macintosh port of of Minix. MacMinix has just recently been freely released for ftp. There is a patch for 040 Macs below.
Click here for the 040 caching patch.
login: root
password: Geheim
MINIX 1.5 FEATURES
HARDWARE REQUIRED
Apple Macintosh Plus, SE, SE/30, II, IIcx, or IIx with at least 1M of RAM. An additional 1M of RAM and a hard disk is strongly recommended. MINIX has been tested primarily with version 6.0 and latter of the Apple system software. Problems may conceivably arise with earlier versions. Any hard disk or display that is supported by the normal Macintosh OS is also supported by MINIX.
PARTIAL LIST OF UTILITIES INCLUDED IN MINIX 1.5
animals ar ascii at atrun backup badblocks banner basename bawk btoa cal cat cdiff cgrep chgrp chip
chmem chmod chown clr cmp comm compress cp cpdir crc cron ctags cut date dd de df dhrystone diff
diskcheck dosdir dosread doswrite du echo ed elle ex expand expr factor fgrep file find fold fortune fsck
gather getlf getty grep gres head ic id ifdef indent inodes kill last leave ln login look lpr ls m4 machine
mail make man mined mkdir mkfs mknod modem more mount mref mv nm nroff od passwd paste
patch pr prep pretty printenv printroot ps pwd readall readfs recover ref rev rm rmdir roff rz sed shar
size sleep sort spell split strings strip stty su sum sync sz tail tar tee term termcap test time touch tr
traverse treecmp true tset tsort ttt umount unexpand uniq unshar update users uud uue vi vol wc
whatsnew whereis which who whoami width write
PARTIAL LIST OF LIBRARY FUNCTIONS INCLUDED IN MINIX 1.5
abort abs access alarm atoi atol bcmp bcopy chmod chown chroot ctermid ctime ctype curses cuserid
doprintf dup dup2 fgetc fgets fopen fork fpathconf fprintf fputc fputs fread freopen fseek fstat ftell
fwrite getcwd getdents getegid getenv geteuid getgid getutil gtty index ioctl isatty kill link lock lrand
lsearch lseek malloc memccpy memchr memcmp memcpy memmove memset message mkdir mkfifo
mknod mktemp nlist open opendir pathconf pause peekpoke perror rand read readdir regexp regsub
rename setbuf setgid setjmp setuid signal sleep sprintf stat strerror strlen strncat strncmp strncpy
strpbrk strrchr strspn system telldir termcap time times tmpnam ttyname umask umount
Download it and check it out for yourself.
Segment it into 6 800k discs to load on your Plus or SE
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:26:43 +0200 To: classic-post@hitznet.com From: Heiko Recktenwald <UZS106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Subject: MacMinix1.5 Some fun to have unix on a Plus or se........ I dont know how to use, not a Unix guru, but its complete etc...and the idea of a real multitasking thing with system 6.....;-) This morning I got a mail, explaing some of the mac specific commands. The Prentice-Hall book isnt on the net, but here is a snippet, maybe somebody is interested: << eject -- eject a diskette from a drive hdclose -- close hard disk partition hdopen -- set correspondence of a HD partition to a MacIntosh file maccreate -- create an empty MacIntosh file macfile -- list, read, and write MacIntosh volumes macread -- read a MacIntosh file macwrite -- write a MacIntosh file rmaker -- a simple resource compiler settype -- set type and/or creator of a Mac file >> Dont ask me for the details, ask around at comp.os.minix, thats where Linux started......... The URL for minix is ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix etc...look for Macintosh. There are some manuals at, see the other snippet: << I should have mentioned in an earlier message that the entire Minix 1.5 reference manual is available at minix1.hampshire.edu in the /pub/refman.1.5 directory. Also a set of man pages for Minix 1.5 is available in /pub/minix.1.5/man. >> MacMinix Web Site Its not macspecific, but....... The hqx files from Amsterdam is around 5 MB, took me one hour with a 14400 GV, around the same time for decoding, so if you can sacrify two hours.. And then, I had to log in. Password ??? Voila: << the login name is root and the password is Geheim (it's case sensitive) hope that's what you need also, the extra users on there are: ast , Wachtwoold bin deamon you can edit the passwrods for all of them while logged on as root or as the user >> MacMinix is just a programm, there is MacBoot, you doubleclick on it etcpp. No difficult HD manipulations needed. Read the files in etc to get some kind of a clue, whats going on. First thing I did was to write a .kermcr file for ast, set line /dev/tty3 etc., next thing will be some other file in /etc that I can log into the SE from the outside. Heiko
Heiko
Thanks to Chris Hanson for this fix!
Here is what Chris posted to the comp.os.minix newsgroup:
Quite a while ago, I worked out how and when to flush caches so I could leave my Centris' 040 running at full blast. This is the result of those efforts.It adds an optional "flush040()" at two places, one in mm/exec.c and one in mm/forkexit.c, and adds an assembly file to implement that routine to the memory manager. On my Centris 610 I was getting 2000 dhrystones/sec with caches off on a stock 1.5.10.7 kernel; with caches enabled and my new (not even optimized!) kernel, I get around 7000. Happy, eh?
Share & enjoy,
ChrisPS - I'm guessing that this will work for 040 accelerators, and other M68000 machines using 040s. If anyone tries it, let me know, okay? :-)
The file should end in .uue - it should be called something like 040sup.uue. Notice under the "table" lines there's a line that says "begin XXX 040sup.tar.Z" - this is the name of the output file to create once it's uudecoded; the uuencoded file name should be 040sup.uue then.macread "Disk:Path:patchfile.uue" | uud - > patchfile.tar.Z
zcat patchfile.tar | tar xvf -
Apply patches to files indicated in README, move files indicated in README to appropriate spots.
And HERE is the fix.
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