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Here is a description of what to do to get started with Minix. Each link takes you to the relavant manual page for that command. You can get the same information from within Minix by typing: $ man command_name at the prompt, where command_name must be replaced by the name of the command that you intend to find out more about, e.g.: $ man adduser When you switch on the power to your new Minix system it loads the Boot Monitor. Type "=" and you will be prompted to login into the system. Login as user 'root' and set up the root password. It is not a good thing to stay logged in as root, because the root user (also known as the superuser) has privileges on the whole system, and a wrong command could cause serious damage. It is best to setup a new user account for you and for any other user who is going to work with your Minix system. Now you can login as an ordinary user, using the new user id you have just created, and set up a password for it as you did for user root. This will take you into your home directory ( you can verify this by using the pwd command ) where a number of files have been automatically created for you ( you can verify this with the ls command ). Note that you don't just "switch off" a Unix box: when you have completed your work you can either log out by typing "exit" at the prompt and leave your machine powered, ready for the next user to login or, if you need to switch the power off, it is necessary to shutdown the system first so that the it can perform all its housekeeping tasks properly before powering off. Now you are ready to start exploring all the features of your new Unix
system and do some serious work... watch out this page for more suggestions
(hopefully) in the near future!
Last updated 08/04/2000 |