From: Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org>
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Simple Unix install? (was: What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:03:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56623FD9-B886-46C2-A32D-6B4B2AC20F3E@alchemistowl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191015042708.GD7292@eureka.lemis.com>
On 15 Oct 2019, at 06:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> Clearly you weren't installing Interactive UNIX/386 from floppy, like
> my first experience. It was like pulling teeth.
Not to mention Xenix/286… the never ending 5”1/4 “HD” floppies… the ones which somehow were almost readable but not quite… then you started the install again and a different floppy failed.
Was it tar on the raw floppy? I don’t remember to be honest.
Arrigo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-15 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-15 0:28 [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment? Pat Barron
2019-10-15 1:19 ` Andrew Warkentin
2019-10-15 4:06 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-15 4:27 ` [TUHS] Simple Unix install? (was: What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-10-15 9:03 ` Arrigo Triulzi [this message]
2019-10-16 3:20 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-16 8:20 ` Matt Rudge
2019-10-16 3:50 Pat Barron
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