On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 3:23 PM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 18:56, Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com> wrote:
I think I may have found 2.0 on the Internet Archive too.

The dates on the iso are from late November 1994.


On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 2:14 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:


On Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 3:21 PM Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 5:46 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:

Where did you get this distribution?  The one I could easily find, https://archive.org/details/vax-svr2 , has serious filesystem problems that can easily be seen by running an fsck on boot.

 
Speaking of Unix History, following that link led me to a copy of what I think was the first 4.4BSD-Lite based FreeBSD iso -it's from June 1995. No big deal *except* that it includes a scan of the cover, something that looks like an insert and it consists of two cds. I haven't had a chance to look at the cds yet so I don't know what's on them.

IMO the scans are the big deal and why I'm posting the link to it here. Apologies in advance for any lapses in etiquette:
 

FreeBSD 2.0.0 was the first Lite based release. This looks to be 2.0.5 which was a 7 months later.


Hmmm I think I have the 2.0 cdrom in my basement...

Warner

These are just the regular Walnut Creek ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek_CDROM ) packaged distributions of free software.  Is there a reason that they are considered special or significant?

-Henry

Yes. I posted the first one because it included a scan of the packaging and an insert (which I don't think you can find on the FreeBSD archive -though I haven't looked), I posted a link to the second one because it pre-dates the earliest ISO on the FreeBSD archive (2.0 instead of 2.0.5).

I thought people would be interested in the first link as an interesting curiosity, and the second one was for any software completists.

-Michael