DEMOLISH(8)

NAME
demolish - take an image to pieces

SYNOPSIS
demolish image
demolish image kernel mm fs ... init

DESCRIPTION
Demolish does the opposite of installboot -image or build: It takes a Minix kernel image apart to its components. Extracting an image made by installboot is straightforward, as it is much like an ar(1) or tar(1) archive. A build made image has lost a lot of information about the original programs, so you need to specify their names.

The following restrictions/assumptions/comments are made about a build image:
    It must be a 1.5 or newer image with no special tricks. The kernel must either be separate I&D, or it's stack must be 512 bytes exactly with no change to the beginning of the text and data segment. The click size is 256. There is a minute chance that the data segment of a common I&D fs is not properly located. This doesn't matter for the other programs.

The assumption is that this program is used to take a Minix distribution boot floppy apart, so that the programs may be reassembled by installboot for my boot monitor (see monitor(8)).

SEE ALSO
build(8), installboot(8), monitor(8).

BUGS
Recompile the kernel. Feels much better.

AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot, (kjb@cs.vu.nl)