From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de (Jochen Kunz) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:54:05 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] 4.4BSD installed image or login shell? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20120419205405.f0b3627e.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:08:56 -0500 (CDT) "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > Does anyone have installation instructions (with binary distribution) or > a ready-to-use image for an historical 4.4BSD (encumbered or -Lite plus > needed parts or -Lite2) with gxemul, tme, or other emulator? I can't remember exactely. Its been some years, but I did somthing like the folowing to get 4.4BSD-Lite on a HP9000-433t instaled: Boot NetBSD diskless. (Must have been in the 1.4 to 1.6 days.) disklabel sd0 newfs /dev/rsd0a mount /dev/sd0a /mnt cd /mnt tar xzf /nfsroot/4.4BSD-dist.tar.gz /mnt/usr/mdec/installboot or somthing like this. I.e. basicly I did a complete manual OS install using NetBSD as the install environement and 4.4BSD as the distribution source. Maybe I used something like http://unix-archive.pdp11.org.ru/4BSD/Distributions/4.4BSD-Alpha/rootdump.gz as the initial disk contence. Can't remember. The resulting disk was bootable, but the old 4.4BSD gradualy damaged the file system due to differences in the NetBSD ffs or disklabel layout. But it did run long enough to do about the same procedure as above to a second disk. As that disk was completely instaled with the old 4.4BSD stuff it did run well and without problems. -- \end{Jochen} \ref{http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/}