From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tim.newsham@gmail.com (Tim Newsham) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:22:58 -1000 Subject: [TUHS] 4.4BSD installed image or login shell? In-Reply-To: <20120419205405.f0b3627e.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> References: <20120419205405.f0b3627e.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> Message-ID: perhaps after doing netbsd -> 44bsd you should have done another 44bsd bootstrapped -> 44bsd native install. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:08:56 -0500 (CDT) > "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > >> Does anyone have installation instructions (with binary distribution) or >> a ready-to-use image for an historical 4.4BSD (encumbered or -Lite plus >> needed parts or -Lite2) with gxemul, tme, or other emulator? > I can't remember exactely. Its been some years, but I did somthing like > the folowing to get 4.4BSD-Lite on a HP9000-433t instaled: > Boot NetBSD diskless. (Must have been in the 1.4 to 1.6 days.) > disklabel sd0 > newfs /dev/rsd0a > mount /dev/sd0a /mnt > cd /mnt > tar xzf /nfsroot/4.4BSD-dist.tar.gz > /mnt/usr/mdec/installboot or somthing like this. > > I.e. basicly I did a complete manual OS install using NetBSD as the > install environement and 4.4BSD as the distribution source. > > Maybe I used something like > http://unix-archive.pdp11.org.ru/4BSD/Distributions/4.4BSD-Alpha/rootdump.gz > as the initial disk contence. Can't remember. > > The resulting disk was bootable, but the old 4.4BSD gradualy damaged > the file system due to differences in the NetBSD ffs or disklabel > layout. But it did run long enough to do about the same procedure as > above to a second disk. As that disk was completely instaled with the > old 4.4BSD stuff it did run well and without problems. > -- > > > \end{Jochen} > > \ref{http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/} > > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com