As indicated in Appendix A of the text, a suite of about 40 programs are available for testing the Minix installation.

Instructions to run the tests is given there and repeated here:

1. Log in as root.
2. Change to the /usr/src/test directory and compile the test programs:

   # cd /usr/src/test
   # make
   

3. Log in as user bin (either log out and log back in; use the command su bin or in VMware Player type one of alt-F2, alt-F4 to get another "terminal" to log in as bin.
4. Change to /usr/src/test again and run the tests:

   $ cd /usr/src/test
   $ ./run
   

   The ./ is necessary since by default, the current directory is not in bin's PATH.