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5 MINIX ON THE APPLE MACINTOSH In this chapter we will describe how to boot and install MACMINIX on the Apple Macintosh. It is assumed that the reader is already familiar with MACMINIX in gen- eral, and has at least some knowledge of UNIX. Readers not at all familiar with UNIX should probably begin by looking at one of the many introductory articles and books about it, as this manual does not contain any tutorial material on UNIX. If you plan on running multifinder with MACMINIX, be sure to read the multi- finder section below. 5.1. MACMINIX HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS MINIX will run on any Macintosh with at least one megabyte of memory and 128K (or larger) ROMs. MACMINIX has been tested most extensively with system software version 6.0 or later. Earlier versions may present some problems. 5.2. THE MACMINIX DISTRIBUTION The MACMINIX distribution consists of eight double-sided 800K diskettes. One of them contains the boot application and the root file system, and is used for boot- ing MACMINIX. Since MACMINIX file systems are also ordinary Macintosh operating 60 MINIX ON THE APPLE MACINTOSH CHAP. 5 system files, all of the diskettes are readable by the normal Macintosh operating sys- tem. Here is the list of the diskettes: center,box; c c c c l l l l. Name Size File system Description 00.BOOT 800K MAC OS/MINIX Used for booting MINIX 01.USR1 800K MAC OS/MINIX Commands 02.USR2 800K MAC OS/MINIX Commands 03.ACK 800K MAC OS/MINIX C compiler 04.SRC1 800K MAC OS/MINIX Sources of MINIX 05.SRC2 800K MAC OS/MINIX Sources of commands 06.SRC3 800K MAC OS/MINIX Sources of commands 07.SRC4 800K MAC OS/MINIX Editors We will refer to these diskettes in the rest of this chapter by their name in the first column of this table, for example, 00.BOOT. Before you start working with these diskettes we strongly advise you to make copies of them. You can use normal Macintosh procedures to make these copies. If you are not familiar with how to copy a diskette, refer to your Macintosh owner’s guide. Keep the original disks write protected under all circumstances. Make sure that the copies are named identically to the originals, since the following procedures depend on this. Once you have made the copies, place the originals in a safe place and use the copies. Please note that if you use write protected floppies in the follow- ing installation procedures, you will occasionally get write errors on device 2/0. These messages can safely be ignored. 5.3. NATIONAL KEYBOARDS The Macintosh has different keyboards for different countries. When booting, MACMINIX uses the Toolbox to assist in the creation of the virtual key code to ASCII translation table, so assuming that the international resources have been properly configured for your machine, the table will be correct for your country.…