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 - minimal operation

minimal operation:

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.

Filesystem Downloading

Having made the initial filesystem on another kind of system, we need to move it into place on the system we are running the kernel on.