On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 13:42, Will Senn wrote: > On 10/4/21 12:22 PM, Henry Bent wrote: > > My question is: how was this sort of thing done in the real world? If > > I was a site running stock 4.3BSD, would I have received (or been able > > to request) updated tapes at regular intervals? The replacement > > process that I have been using is fairly labor intensive and on a real > > VAX would have been very time intensive too. Fortunately two to three > > years' worth of changes were not so drastic that I ever found myself > > in a position where the existing tools were not able to compile pieces > > of Tahoe that I needed to proceed, but I could easily imagine finding > > myself in such a place. (This was, by the way, what I ran into when > > attempting to upgrade from 2.9BSD to 2.10BSD, despite a fully > > documented contemporary upgrade procedure). > > Hi Henry, > > I expect folks who actually ran this can weigh in with the 'real world' > perspective. What I can offer is that the document entitled, "Installing > and Operating 4.3BSD-tahoe UNIX* on the VAX" by the folks doing the > release (CSRG) is probably canonical: > > http://blog.livedoor.jp/suzanhud/BSD/4.3BSD_Tahoe_VAX.pdf > > Well now I feel a little silly. I did look in the source tree for a document like this but couldn't find one. It does appear, however, in the installed (for Tahoe) tree in /usr/doc/smm/01.setup. -Henry