MINIX 3 Users Guide Table of Contents

The Users Guide provides information on how to install and configure MINIX 3. If you're new to MINIX 3, you should start here.

Part I: Getting Started

1. Introduction
   1. Welcome to MINIX 3
2. Installing MINIX 3
   1. Hardware Requirements
   2. Doing the Installation
   3. Post-Installation Configuration
   4. Disk Partitions
   5. Running Multiple Operating Systems
   6. Troubleshooting
3. Installing Applications
   1. Installing Binary Packages
   2. Installing Source Packages
4. The X Window System
   1. Introduction to X
   2. Window Managers
5. Virtualization
   1. Running MINIX 3 on VMware
   2. Running MINIX 3 on Qemu (and KVM)
   3. Running MINIX 3 on Bochs
   4. Running MINIX 3 on Parallels
   5. Running MINIX 3 on VirtualBox
   6. Running MINIX 3 on VirtualPC 2007

Part II: Using MINIX 3

1. Common Text-Based Applications
   1. Command line interface
   2. Elvis/vi/vi(m) (yet another txt editor)
   3. The GNU Utilities
   4. GNU Development Tools - GCC, GNU make, etc.
2. Internet Applications
   1. Web Browsers
   2. Email Applications
   3. File Transfer
   4. Apache and PHP

Part III: System Administration

1. Basic System Administration
   1. Introduction to System Administration
   2. Setting the Root Password
   3. Managing User Accounts
   4. Serial Consoles
   5. Manual Pages for Administrators
2. Starting and Stopping MINIX 3
   1. The Boot Monitor
   2. Running Multiple Operating Systems
   3. Shutting Down
3. Configuration and Tuning
   1. Installation Optimizations
   2. APIC mode
4. Security
   1. Securing MINIX 3
   2. OpenSSH
   3. Setting Up the SSH Daemon
5. Networking
   1. NetworkConfiguration
   2. Booting over the network using PXE
6. Technical Notes
   1. Harmless Diagnostic Messages
   2. Using Shared Libraries