cnvogelg / minix1-unwrap

Unwrap Minix1 Disk Images from big endian systems like Amiga, Atari ST, or Mac

minix1-unwrap

This tool allows to unpack Minix V1.x disk images used for big endian system (e.g. Amiga, Atari ST, Mac). The files found in the images are extracted with sub dirs into a host directory. Additionally, compressed archives found in the images are automatically extracted (e.g. SRC.a.Z files).

Installation

• You need a Python >=3.6 setup

• Install unlzw3 package

    pip3 install unlzw3
  

• Clone this repo

Run

Download some Minix V1.x disk images for Amiga, Atari ST, or Mac from Minix 1.x Versions

Unpack the contents of the disk images by giving the disk name of one or multiple images to unpack_disk.py:

	$ ./unpack_disk.py disk03 disk04

A new folder called disk will be created in the current directory and the extracted files are placed there. Use option -o <output_dir> to set an alternative output directory.

If source archives are found (i.e. *.a.Z files for the kernel sources) then the archives are unpacked automatically. Use option -k to keep archives.

Note: the tool is only able to unpack disk images in Minix file format. Typically, the first disks of an install set are in the native disk format of the target system and cannot be unpacked with this tool.