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[99.139.148.170]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w74sm51679oif.57.2020.07.28.16.03.18 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:03:19 -0700 (PDT) To: TUHS main list From: Will Senn Message-ID: <6a0063f8-128d-751d-114f-a0f811d02098@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:03:17 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------5F5752E695181041F47DDFCF" Content-Language: en-US Subject: [TUHS] 2bsd tarball X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5F5752E695181041F47DDFCF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? Thanks, Will Here's where I found the tarballs: https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/ -- GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF --------------5F5752E695181041F47DDFCF Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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?

Thanks,

Will

Here's where I found the tarballs:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/


 
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