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 - home directory

home directory:

Other Directories: /lib, /mnt, /usr, /root, and /sys

A number of additional directorys are present in the root to handle a variety of other purposes, but these are more to do with full operation of the system beyond the initial root filesystem.