Disk 1:

command1.tar.Z    /usr/src/command  (main directory)
command2.tar.Z    /usr/src/command  (subdirectories)

Disk 2:
man.tar.Z         /usr/man
bin.tar.Z         /usr/bin          (compiled for 80286)

Disk 3:
* aux.tar.Z       /usr/src/aux      (minix 1.3 changemem script)
bin_lib.tar.Z     /usr/lib          (libc.a compiled for 80286)
doc.tar.Z         /usr/doc
etc.tar.Z         /usr/src/etc
fs.tar.Z          /usr/src/fs
include.tar.Z     /usr/include      (includes minix and sys subdirs)
kernel.tar.Z      /usr/src/kernel
lib.tar.Z         /usr/src/lib      (about 5 subdirectories)
* local.tar.Z     /usr/local/bin    (my stuff)
mm.tar.Z          /usr/src/mm
* rfs.tar.Z       /usr/src/rfs      (my root filesystem prototype & binaries)
test.tar.Z        /usr/test
tools.tar.Z       /usr/src/tools


What you have are a bunch of compressed tar files.  To install Minix 1.5.5,
make a disk partition (start it on an even-numbered cylinder), and make
each of the directories listed above.  Then, cd to each directory and
unpack the tar:

cd /usr/src/mm ; zcat /user/mm.tar.Z  tar x -

To get this working, zcat has to be a link to compress, and mkdir has
to be put in /bin.

Notes:

Some of these files are changed from the official 1.5.5 posting.  In all
cases, the original file has an "O." prefix.  Thus, /usr/src/kernel/O.Makefile
is the official 1.5.5 kernel Makefile.

There are two places in the sources where you want to worry about whether
your target is an 8088, a 286, or a 386: /usr/include/minix/config.h and
/usr/src/lib/string/Makefile.

To get de to work right, you need to compile and link termcap.c directly
in.  (as opposed to letting asld find termcap.s in libc.a)  Why this is,
I dunno.  /usr/src/command/de/Makefile does NOT reflect this change.

The rfs directory is the place where I build my root filesystems.
Just cd /usr/src/rfs and do a mkfs /dev/at0 rfs.proto.  The files
for the root file system will be read from /usr/src/rfs/root.  In the
second line of the prototype file, the 384 can be changed to give a bigger
or smaller root file system.

How to rebuild the library:

1) mkdir /usr/src/lib/bin
2) in /usr/src/lib/bin , do an ar x on the old libc.a.  This is needed
   to get the ACK compiler routines.
3) in /usr/src/lib/ansi, other, and posix, compile all the .c's to .s's
   and move the .s's to bin
4) in /usr/src/lib/ibm, compile the .c's and move the .s's.  Libpack the
   .s's already there (but not the ones you generate) and put them in bin.
5) go to /usr/src/lib/string.  Set the correct CPU type in the Makefile, and
   do a "make object".  Move the .s files to ../bin
6) delete the memcpy.s in the bin directory.  One of the string routines
   replaces this binary.

7) you are now ready to order your library.  In /usr/src/lib/bin, execute
   lorder *.s > ../order.partial
8) Sort your partial ordering: tsort ../order.partial > ../order.total
9) build the library:   mv /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libc.old
                        ar r /usr/lib/libc.a
                        for i in `cat ../order.total`
                        do
                        ar q /usr/lib/libc.a $i
                        done

Something like the above 9 steps should re-build a valid MINIX 1.5.5 library.

DO NOT USE THE MINIX 1.5.5 ast.  USE THE 1.3 ast binary