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Minix3 Installation 1. Download Vmware Player 2.0 from this location ... 2. Download the Minix Virtual machine from this location ...or install Minix using this CD from the book ... 3. Install Vmware Player/Workstation and open the Minix virtual machine using the file menu ... 4. Create a virtual floppy drive for this machine using the options in Edit Virtual Machine Settings menu. Make sure that an image is created for this image drive in '.img' format. 5. Boot the machine using 'Start this virtual machine option' 6. Make all the required changes, do 'make world' 7. Make sure that the Minix VM either has the floppy drive mapped to the actual floppy drive or an .img file on the Host machine. 8. then goto /usr/src/tools run 'make fdboot', when it asks for the floppy drive give fd0 which has a blank image created for writing the boot image. 9. If .img file is used as floppy drive, Burn the fd image to CD from windows using any CD writing software or Mag...

Installing Bochs/Unix_v6 on your 32-bit Linux machine Start of with downloading the latest bochs source from this site . I have downloaded this snapshot. Extract to a folder tar -zxvf bochs-20070421.tar.gz Change to the bochs extracted folder cd bochs-20070421 Configure the bochs to be built in Debug mode ./configure --enable-debugger --enable-disasm Check that debugger flags are enabled config.h #define BX_DEBUGGER 1 #define BX_DISASM 1 Compile the bochs in debugger mode gmake Install the bochs in debugger mode make install Bochs is all set to run in the DEBUG Mode :) What next, I need OS for Boch machine, I have tried Linux, Windows, Mac OS all these are stupid they dint work on my Bochs machine, so I took the simple and the best OS Unix v6 from one of the google code. Building the Unix v6 OS for Bochs machine Get the Unix v6 source from this googlecode project svn checkout http://iitcs450.googlecode.com/svn/lab1/trunk/ lab1 change to the source directory cd lab1 Build the kernel and...