[Page 632]A.3. Installing to the Hard Disk These steps correspond to the steps on the screen. 1. | Select keyboard type
When you are asked to select your national keyboard, do so. This and other steps have a default choice, in square brackets. If you agree with it, just hit ENTER. In most steps, the default is generally a good choice for beginners. The us-swap keyboard interchanges the CAPS LOCK and CTRL keys, as is conventional on UNIX systems.
| 2. | Select your Ethernet chip
You will now be asked which of the available Ethernet drivers you want installed (or none). Please choose one of the options.
| 3. | Basic minimal or full distribution?
If you are tight on disk space, select M for a minimal installation which includes all the binaries but only the system sources installed. The minimal option does not install the sources of the commands. 50 MB is enough for a bare-bones system. If you have 1 GB or more, choose F for a full installation.
| | | 4. | Create or select a partition for MINIX 3
You will first be asked if you are an expert in MINIX 3 disk partitioning. If so, you will be placed in the part program to give you full power to edit the Master Boot Record (and enough rope to hang yourself). If you are not an expert, press ENTER for the default action, which is an automated step-by-step guide to formatting a disk partition for MINIX 3.
- Substep 4.1. Select a disk to install MINIX 3
An IDE controller may have up to four disks. The setup script will now look for each one. Just ignore any error messages. When the drives are listed, select one. and confirm your choice. If you have two hard disks and you decide to install MINIX 3 to the second one and have trouble booting from it, please see www.minix3.org/doc/using2disks.html for the solution.
- Substep 4.2. Select a disk region
Now choose a region to install MINIX 3 into. You have three choices:
(1) Select a free region (2) Select a partition to overwrite (3) Delete a partition to free up space and merge with adjacent free space
For choices (1) and (2), type the region number. For (3) type
delete
[Page 633]then give the region number when asked. This region will be overwritten and its previous contents lost forever.
- Substep 4.3. Confirm your choices
You have now reached the point of no return. You will be asked if you want to continue. If you do, the data in the selected region will be lost forever. If you are sure, type:
yes
and then ENTER. To exit the setup script without changing the partition table, hit CTRL-C.
| 5. | Reinstall choice
If you chose an existing MINIX 3 partition, in this step you will be offered a choice between a Full install, which erases everything in the partition, and a Reinstall, which does not affect your existing /home partition. This design means that you can put your personal files on /home and reinstall a newer version of MINIX 3 when it is available without losing your personal files.
| 6. | Select the size of/home
The selected partition will be divided into three subpartitions: root, /usr, and /home. The latter is for your own personal files. Specify how much of the partition should be set aside for your files. You will be asked to confirm your choice.
| 7. | Select a block size
Disk block sizes of 1-KB, 2-KB, 4-KB, and 8-KB are supported, but to use a size larger than 4-KB you have to change a constant and recompile the system. If your memory is 16 MB or more, use the default (4 KB); otherwise, use 1 KB.
| 8. | Wait for bad block detection
The setup script will now scan each partition for bad disk blocks. This will take several minutes, possibly 10 minutes or more on a large partition. Please be patient. If you are absolutely certain there are no bad blocks, you can kill each scan by hitting CTRL-C.
| 9. | Wait for files to be copied
When the scan finishes, files will be automatically copied from the CD-ROM to the hard disk. Every file will be announced as it is copied. When the copying is complete, MINIX 3 is installed. Shut the system down by typing
shutdown
Always stop MINIX 3 this way to avoid data loss as MINIX 3 keeps some files on the RAM disk and only copies them back to the hard disk at shutdown time.
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