http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/index.php is the Lions book
including PS and PDF and in the original troff thankfully.
[Why someone would convert it to tex is a little beyond me].

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:06 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> https://github.com/kanner/lions-book
>
> has the TeX version of the book. You can probably find a PDF version
> online.
>
> The 4.3 BSD book may be a better bet.
>
> On Apr 10, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
> Lion's chapter 6, has some stuff and exact but might not be what you are
> remembering,   Chapter 13 of the BSD book is 'system startup' and
> more general than the Lions description.   The other place I would suggest
> looking is the three DDJ articles Bill and Lynn Jolitz wrote; although he
> might have talked about the 386 specifics, not the vaxen/11.
> ᐧ
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:15 PM Erik E. Fair <fair-tuhs@netbsd.org> wrote:
>
>> That might well Chapter 6 "Getting Started" of the Lions Commentary on v6
>> Unix for the PDP-11. My nicely bound copy was published by Peer-to-Peer
>> Communications in 1996.
>>
>> https://www.peerllc.com/?optioncom_content&taskview&id &ItemidD
>>
>> I'm not sure I know where my samizdat copy from UCB in the early 1980s is
>> ...
>>
>>         Erik
>>
>
> ᐧ