Re: Minix 3 on QEMU

I have made some progress, of sorts. I made another Qemu disk image
and this time I told the Minix installer that I don't have a network
that. With that change I was able to install the contents of the CD. I
configured zsh the way I like it and I have gcc, though I was
surprised by the /usr/gnu directory.

Pico doesn't work: When I try to save it says "Cannot open file for
writing: Bad file number". I can make do with vim.

I can't run X. If I run xdm nothing happens. Like this:

prompt # xdm
prompt #

No error messages, no nothing. I tried startx:

# startx
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH

Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path
and that "X" is a program or a link to the right type of server for
your display. Possible server names include:

Xorg X.Org displays

xinit: Server error.
#


But xinit is lying, "X" is in my PATH:

# type X
X is /usr/X11R6/bin/X


Anyways, back to the discussion about the network card:


On Aug 26, 4:46 pm, "J.F. de Smit" <jst...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Okay, this suggests that Minix indeed finds and activates a network card,
but that it can't get an IP due to nobody answering the DHCP request (last
2 lines). Do you have a DHCP server in your network?

We do, but an external DCHP server is not visible iside the Qemu
client. It looks like Qemu emulates a DHCP server:

http://bellard.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC30

Now, here is something strange: The network appears to work now.

I can't figure out what I'm doing differet, but it works. I have an IP
in the range that the link says. I cannot ping, but the link says I
shouldn't be able to ping. And I can even run packman! I run packman
and I see all the "net" packages like Apache.

I don't like it when things fix themselves by magic, but I'm glad that
it works now. I'm now installing the CD packages.

Thanks for the help.
.

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