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+ | ====== Download ====== | ||
+ | ===== Official releases - x86 - CD images ===== | ||
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+ | Trying MINIX 3 is easy. You just download the compressed CD image file, decompress it, and burn it to a CD-ROM. This CD is a live CD. You can boot your computer from it and a few seconds later you log in as root. You do not have to install MINIX 3 to the hard disk to test it. If you decide you want to install it, you then have to create a hard disk partition for it (1GB to do anything useful) and start the live CD again and run setup. Please note that on x86, MINIX3 **does not support USB** at all (yet!). Proceed as follows: | ||
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+ | * Read the [[:usersguide:doinginstallation|installation guide]]. | ||
+ | * If you do not know how to partition a hard disk, print and read this short [[:usersguide:diskpartitions|tutorial]]. | ||
+ | * Please take our [[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17k6HAj8_w91OzYzS-CfYt6FtdGZlLFEw2MYLWoIGLHo/viewform?usp=send_form|short survey]] after installing 3.3.0. | ||
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+ | ^ Version ^ Medium ^ Image ^ Image Torrent ^ md5sum | | ||
+ | | 3.3.0 (stable release) | CD-ROM | [[http://download.minix3.org/iso/minix_R3.3.0-588a35b.iso.bz2|288 MB]] | [[http://download.minix3.org/iso/minix_R3.3.0-588a35b.iso.bz2.torrent|torrent]] | ''3234ffcebfb2a28069cf3def41c95dec'' | | ||
+ | | 3.2.1 (previous) | CD-ROM | [[http://download.minix3.org/iso/minix_R3.2.1-972156d.iso.bz2|256 MB]] | [[http://download.minix3.org/iso/minix_R3.2.1-972156d.iso.bz2.torrent|torrent]] | ''4c91ba7822cfa441d27755a7e7c4711d'' | | ||
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+ | * Decompress the downloaded file to get a .iso file and the Installation guide (same as above). | ||
+ | * Burn this bootable CD-image file to a CD-ROM. | ||
+ | * Reboot the computer with the CD-ROM device and follow the instructions in the installation guide. | ||
+ | * If you are using **VirtualBox** and have trouble booting the system, follow the instructions [[usersguide:runningonvirtualbox#install_issue_no_hardware_acceleration|here]]. | ||
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+ | ===== Official releases - ARM - SD card images ===== | ||
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+ | We have prebuilt images. | ||
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+ | * 3.3.0 BBXM [[http://www.minix3.org/download/minix_arm_sd_bbxm-3.3.0.img.bz2|image]] | ||
+ | * 3.3.0 Beaglebone black & beaglebone white [[http://www.minix3.org/download/minix_arm_sd_beaglebones-3.3.0.img.bz2|image]] | ||
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+ | To crossbuild for ARM, [[:developersguide:minixonarm|see here]] to see all the steps. | ||
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+ | ===== Development snapshots ===== | ||
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+ | Development snapshots are available at the [[http://download.minix3.org/iso/snapshot/|dev snapshots]] page. | ||
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+ | ===== Previous Versions ===== | ||
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+ | For older versions of MINIX, please see the [[.:previousversions|previous versions]] page. | ||
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+ | ===== Known bugs ===== | ||
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+ | For a list of known bugs in releases, see the [[https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix/issues|known bugs list]]. | ||
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+ | ===== Decompressing the Image ===== | ||
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+ | The best known lossless compression algorithm is implemented in the [[http://www.bzip.org/|bzip2 program]]. It also has extremely fast decompression. The popular [[http://www.7-zip.org/download.html|7zip]] archiver for Windows supports it too. | ||
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+ | If you do not have the compression (bzip2) and decompression (bunzip2) software, here it is for [[http://www.minix3.org/tools/bzip2-102-x86-win32.exe|Windows]], [[http://www.minix3.org/tools/bzip2-103-x86-linux26|Linux]], and [[http://www.minix3.org/tools/bzip2-100-sparc-solaris7|Solaris]]. Here is the [[http://www.minix3.org/tools/bzip2-1.0.3.tar|source tarball]]. Bzip2 is also contained in the MINIX 3 distribution. The zip versions are provided as emergency backup in case you cannot get bzip2 running. |