.TH MKDIST 8.SH NAMEmkdist \- make a Minix distribution.SH SYNOPSIS.B mkdist.SH DESCRIPTION.B Mkdistmakes a Minix distribution on floppies.  Run the command as.B rootand follow the instructions.  It will make one or two bootable installationfloppies and a compressed tar file of.B /usron several floppies using.BR vol (1)..PPThe result can be installed on another system as described in.BR usage (8),except that all of.B /usris saved on one set of floppies instead of being nicely split in binaryand source packages..SH "SEE ALSO".BR tar (1),.BR compress (1),.BR vol (1),.BR usage (8)..SH NOTESAlso very useful for making backups..SH AUTHORKees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)