strange, this ready to boot version picks up BOOTP reply faster than the original

*edit : i just want to drop this information here. i found a cached version of xinu webpage from canberra.edu.au with last update of 24 aug 2003. This webpage has a working  download link for xinu79(patched version i guess, it comes with original directory structure) and also working link for xinu386! . here's the website : http://web.archive.org/web/20031002113447/http://public.ise.canberra.edu.au/~chrisc/xinu.html.

*update : i see an extremely drastic improvement over bootp performance from the xinu79 obtained from website above. FYI i'm using netbsd bootp daemon and mikrotik bootp support.

Best regard

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've been looking for xinu386 in the archives for a LOONNG time. 

Hello, thank you for making a ready to use PC-Xinu image. Sorry for my bad english. So i have 1 question. I have downloaded this PC-Xinu img and pc-xinu has successfully booted up in ms dos 6.22 which I installed in the 86box emulator. According to PC Xinu programmers manual (https://www.dmi.unict.it/pappalardo/lab3/xinuman0.pdf), If you execute xinu79.exe, this program will create a directory tree, but I see some files and folders that are not listed as described in the document. And there are some missing and incomplete files such as netif.h and net.h found in the book "operating system : internetworking with Xinu (1987)". Where can I get the files or make the files visible?

I tried running it in ms-dos prompt in windows 3.1 because windows 3.1 can run ms-dos prompt in windowed mode and more than 1 window, but I get the same thing : the directory structure listed exactly in the document is missing when I type DIR command in the second ms-dos prompt when xinu OS is also running...

Thanks for your comment! Yes, the xinu79.exe by the programmers manual is very incomplete. However, I have a remaining copy of the ORIGINAL xinu79.exe from the ACTUAL website of xinu by the University of Canberra in the 1990s. I have archived it here: https://archive.org/details/pc-xinu

I hope this helps!

Thank you for the archive link to original xinu file. I greatly appreciated it. That's exactly what i'm looking for. There is one more problem though. There is a bootp failed error that frequently appears at the first phase / initial phase of booting. I suspect this may be a bug. I can still log into xinu without having to enable the networking feature with the -n parameter. Pc-xinu released in august 1996 and onwards may have directly bound ip and rarp automatically without having to rely on bootp. I have turned on the bootp server (in this case I used the bootpd daemon on netbsd 10.x as well as bootp on mikrotik x86 and in the wireshark capture I could see bootp requests and successful bootp replies passing through) but to no avail. I'm still looking for which part of the code to tweak...