Jose Maldonado wrote:
> hello guys!!!!
> Im happy to be a new minix3 user.
> I have managed to install it on my usb and boot from it.
> My next question is as follows.

> I dont want to install minix3 on my computer just yet.
> So i would like to use minix3 from my usb at all times.

> 1) Is it possible to get internet access from the USB? That is,
> I will mostly be running minix3 from a computer at my school. Can i
> access
> the internet? If so, how?

If your school offers Internet access through the network and supports
DHCP, chances are good internet works from the get-go. Have you tried if
internet works or not?

> 2) Once i have booted minix3 and running the OS, is it possible to
> access information on the hard disk of the computer? If so,
> how do i do this.

Probably not. Minix only sypports the Minix file system at the moment and
can access FAT file systems thorugh the dosread/doswrite utilities. Your
school's computer's disks are porbably either NTFS (Windows) or EXT2/EXT3
(Linux). However, if your schools offers ssh access to a file server, you
should be able to use scp (after installing OpenSSH).

Regards,

Jens

--
Jens de Smit
Student Computer Science | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
jfdsmit@few.vu.nl | http://www.few.vu.nl/~jfdsmit
"[In the end, people] get furious at IT that the goddamn magic isn't working"
-- Stewart Dean

cool thanks for that!

However...what if they dont support DHCP
for those computers? How do i manually supply
an IP. What is the device name in minix3 of the
network card?

> However...what if they dont support DHCP
> for those computers? How do i manually supply
> an IP. What is the device name in minix3 of the
> network card?

Check out man ifconfig for info on how to set the IP address. add_route
can be used to set the gateway.

Minix has the following device names for the ethernet card itself and
several services:

/dev/eth (also /dev/eth0 ... /dev/ethn for non-default cards)
/dev/ip (also /dev/ip0 ... /dev/ipn for non-default cards)
/dev/udp (also /dev/udp0 ... /dev/udpn for non-default cards)
/dev/tcp (also /dev/tcp0 ... /dev/tcpn for non-default cards)

With kind regards,
Erik van der Kouwe