Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Mac Classi
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In article <37308F79.125BBB75@ab.edu>, Rob Becker  <becker@ab.edu> wrote:
>> Does anyone have any information on running Minix on the mac classic?
>> Will it work?

(I assume someone answered this; yes, it works quite nicely, although don't
expect the performance of, say, an Ultra-SPARC.)

>I know about mac minix but the website seems to have only a link to a
>binhex file? Is this
>the installation floppy? What (if anything) should I do with it?
>Thanks for any help,

The version from ftp.cs.vu.nl, at least, is packaged as a fairly large
self-extracting archive.  Download it to an appropriate medium (your hard
drive, if possible; it's too big to fit on a single ordinary floppy, IIRC),
uncompress it, and run macboot.

binhex is, of course, a fairly standard way of encoding Mac files into a
7-bit ASCII stream.  Stuffit Expander, availiable free everywhere, will
gladly reverse the transformation for you.

Ignore any patches which come packaged with the files; they've already been
installed.

--Andrew Erickson, aje9383@grace.isc.rit.edu
