Note the UID/GID are numeric not ASCII ;-) I suspect henry's tape is closer to the official tape!! On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:11 PM Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 5:04 PM Will Senn wrote: > >> OK, I was able to locate 2bsd.tar.gz and spencer_2bsd.tar.gz in the >> archive. Neither is an installation tape. It appears that they are just >> tarballs of their respective systems (there are very minor differences >> between the two). >> >> In the TAPE file in the tarball, it talks about reading the tar program >> off of the tape using: >> dd if=/dev/mt0 bs=1b skip=1 of=tar >> >> Well, tar is definitely not located at that address, which implies that >> the tarball isn't a distro tape. This note in the archive used to read: >> >> ... >> >> The remaining gzipped tar files are other 2BSD distributions supplied by >> Keith Bostic, except for spencer_2bsd.tar.gz which came from Henry Spencer. >> They do not contain installation tape images. The 2.9BSD-Patch directory >> contains patches to 2.9BSD dated August 85, and again supplied by Keith Bostic. >> >> ... >> now it reads: >> ... >> >> 2.11BSD 2.11BSD-pl195.tar is a copy of 2.11BSD at patch level 195, supplied >> by Tom Ivar Helbekkmo. spencer_2bsd.tar.gz is a version of 2BSD which came >> from Henry Spencer. >> ... >> >> I recall having to do something with cont.a files, which are not present on these images. So, my questions is, does anyone know of or have an actual 2bsd tape/tape image? >> >> Both of the 2bsd tapes you found are from the days when Berkeley just > sent patches to the 7th Edition out. The 2.8BSD tape was the first one to > have a kernel that was bootable from the tape. The 2BSD tapes originally > had 2 files on them. The first one was a binary copy of tar that ran on V7. > The second was a tarball of all the rest. As you discovered, they shipped > with a label like: > Second Berkeley Software Tape > May 10, 1979 TAR 800BPI > > %dd if=/dev/mt0 bs=1b skip=1 of=tar > %chmod 755 tar > % tar x > > 10000 blocks > but the 2bsd.tar.gz file has just the second file. > > The spensor_2bsd.tar.gz has a tar binary in it: > > tar tvf spencer_2bsd.tar.gz | head > -rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 24688 Feb 17 1980 tar > -rw-r--r-- 0 0 10 3687 Feb 17 1980 tar.1 > -rw-r--r-- 0 0 10 456 Feb 17 1980 tar.ms > -rw-r--r-- 0 0 10 15216 Feb 17 1980 install.ms > > if you are looking for that pre-built. If you are looking to create a tape > with tar on it to extract other tar tapes, you'd need to use a variation on > the maketape.pl with a block size of 1 so the above dd will work on the > target system... > > Warner >