Re: [TUHS] Are there images of any SVR2's available online?

[Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>]

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On 12/24/21 1:09 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 9:39 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
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>     All,
>
>     Are there any bootable media available for any SVR 2 systems
>     available online? Or are they all under IP lock and key? If so,
>     what's the closest system that is available to get a feel for that
>     variety of OS?
>
>
> You can find pointers to System Vr4.2 on i386 here 
> https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ancient/ as well as System 
> III, but nothing in between.
>
> http://squoze.net/UNIX/sysV_pdp11/Installation has system Vr1 on a 
> pdp-11 installation instructions. This is, as far as I know, the only 
> version of System V that ran on the pdp-11. The porting target was 
> changed to the VAX in system Vr2 (though there were VAX versions of 
> both System Vr1 and System III, the latter on squoze.net 
> <http://squoze.net>).
>
> https://archive.org/details/ATTUNIXSystemVRelease4Version2 has the 
> sources to the different System V releases and claims to have a cpio 
> of the System Vr2 sources that could create a bootable system.
>
> On vetusware.com <http://vetusware.com>, you can search for SYSVr2 and 
> find 2 entries. I've not looked at them. One claims to be the source, 
> and the other claims to be a dump of /usr with sources and binaries 
> (but no "/" nor bootable tapes it would appear). The entries for these 
> indicate there's animport of BSD code, but no TCP/IP.
>
> Finally, there's this page on installing System Vr3 on a 3b2 from 
> scratch. https://loomcom.com/3b2/installing_unix.html looks good to my 
> eye. It's an installation from floppies.
>
> But no bootable tapes that my googling could find.
>
> Warner

Thanks Warner. I remembered 3b2 coming available, but had lost track of 
where. Thanks for the summary and links.

Will

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