/joh'liks/ n.,adj. 386BSD

Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach



William & Lynne Jolitz


Started open source UNIX.

Appeared in part as a 17 article magazine series in 1991-1992.

Documented the "how, what, why, who, when" of porting BSD to the 386.

Done while BSD was becoming "open source".





Porting Unix to the 386: A Practical Approach - basic utilities

basic utilities:

A Brief Review of the Root

A breakdown of the various uses of the root filesystems, and the considerations for each as we prove out the operation of the system step by step.

Utilities: /bin and /sbin

A basic set of utilities is present on the root, both of general user operation as well as necessary supervisory utilities for system recovery and operation.





Copyright 2006 TeleMuse Partners, William Jolitz and Lynne Jolitz