In this post we will explain the process of installing Minix 3.1.3a (this is very straightforward) and configuring our virtual NIC.
If you followed the steps in the previous post, you would have a virtual machine configured and you are booting the Minix 3.1.3a ISO right now.
The Minix installation is very easy. Follow the steps until Step 2. This is crucial. Here you are about choose which network card would be used. Select the card #6 named “AMD LANCE”. Write 6 and press ENTER.
Once the setup has finished, reboot your system: (“shutdown” and “boot d0p0”).
After that, we are going to edit the file “/usr/etc/rc” to swap the lance driver with the one before it. Log in as “root”, and type “mined /usr/etc/rc”.
Go to line 82 (it says “echo –n Starting services…”). Press CTRL + ], write “82” and press ENTER. Put the caret in the beginning of the next line (use arrow keys) and press CTRL + @. Mark down to, and including, next line that states “fi”. Then press CTRL + K to cut it and copy it into the buffer. Move below the line that says “up inet”. Press CTRL + Y to paste the contents of the buffer.
Look at the picture above. The text inside the red box is what you should have pasted. Press CTRL + W to write the changes to the disk. Later press CTRL + X to exit to the shell.
Reboot the system as you did it previously. Log in and try ping’ing to any place (e.g. “ping rafavargas.com”). You should receive “rafavargas.com is alive” as response is everything worked as expected.
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