Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help with MacMinix
From: mhoward@plainfield.bypass.com (Mark Howard)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:13:55 -0400
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Will Rose <cwr@cts.com> wrote:
> Ben Black (bigben@dcn.davis.ca.us) wrote:
> : Well, I'm not REALLY a newbie, but it feels like it.
I am, and I'm having a great time playing with it on my plus.
> : I'm running a Mac IIci (68030) and am just starting to work with MacMinix
> : (freeware version 1.5.x)  
> 
> 
> : I've used UNIX extensively in the past, but it's been about 8 years since
> : I've used it and I need help getting started with MacMinix.
Check out Installing MacMinix 1.5.:
http://www.3-cities.com/~ellis/install.html A good place to start.

> : I know that it doesn't support 32 bit addressing.  I know the root and ast
> : passwords.  Now what?  I mean, can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> : I need the man(1) pages.  I tried looking at one archive (wsr.ac.at) but
> : they arn't there anymore.
> 
> Try minnie (see below).
You could also try, ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/minix/old/misc/man/ I think
that's where I got them. I got the 'newmanuals' or something like that.
The problem is, they don't work as distributed. You can reformat the man
pages so the work with the version of man that comes with MacMinix. 
See news post 26436 from Albert S. Woodhull (get it from the news
archive on minnie) on how to do this. I was unable to get it to work for
me though. The other solution is to use a newer version of the man
program. There some links to the source for this in Edward Ellis's
unofficial MacMinix FAQ:
http://www.3-cities.com/~ellis/macminix.html
You have to make one change in man.c for it to work. Change
#define PAGER "less"
to
#define PAGER "more"
MacMinix doesn't seem to come with 'less'.

> : I need to know how to set up additional users. 
> 
> Edit /etc/password by hand (save it to wherever the ram disk has been
> loaded from to make the changes permanent).

Note that the man page for passwd(4) says that the format for
/etc/passwd is,
        login_name:passwd:GID:UID:user_name:directory:shell
while it actually appears to be   
        login_name:passwd:UID:GID:user_name:directory:shell
                          ^^^^^^^^
This confused me for a few days:)

[clip] 
> : Sorry if these are addressed in the FAQ for this group, but I don't know
> : where that is yet either.
> 
> There may be a copy at cs.vu.nl - the usual place is rtfm.mit.edu.
Look for the 1.5 FAQ and info sheet on
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html

Good Luck, Mark
