From: jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de (Jochen Kunz)
Subject: [TUHS] Some tapes
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:13:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020503131331.A21649@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205031002.g43A2mE30088@minnie.tuhs.org>; from wkt@minnie.tuhs.org on Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:02:47PM +1000
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On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:02:47PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> For most of the 4BSD releases, Kirk's CSRG 4-CD set unfortunately only
> has source files: no binaries, no boot records, no bootable tape images.
> This does make it hard to resurrect these systems on original hardware
> or simulators.
Yes. And if there are binaries, like for 4.4BSD-Lite, they are on
the ISO file system, not in tar archives. So many file system attributes
like links are lost, device nodes are plain files, ...
I made 4.4BSD-Lite working on my HP9000 433t, but it was a bit
complicated, required a netbooted NetBSD, problems with disklabel
differences 4.4BSD <=> NetBSD, ... It works now (more or less)
and when I have the time I work on a build to update the machine
to the final 4.4BSD-Lite2.
e.g. 4.3BSD-Reno binaries for HP9000 300 would be fine. VAX binaries
are already in the archive. With that you can put a VAX and a HP300
side by side and see and feel the the difference from architecture
to architecture. The same for 4.4BSD on HP300, SPARC, PMAX, ...
Or some 4.[012]BSD on a VAX 11/7[35]0. Are you willing to rebuild
the world on a 0.3 / 0.6 VUP machine with <= 2MB RAM?
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tschüß,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-03 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-03 10:29 Aharon Robbins
2002-05-03 10:02 ` Warren Toomey
2002-05-03 11:13 ` Jochen Kunz [this message]
2002-05-03 16:53 ` Mike Haertel
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2002-05-03 8:13 Mike Haertel
2002-05-03 3:51 Kevin Schoedel
2002-05-03 4:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2002-05-03 5:07 ` Kevin Schoedel
2002-05-03 6:04 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2002-05-03 7:51 ` Warren Toomey
2002-05-06 16:38 ` Johnny Billquist
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