From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org>
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 21:20:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfp0+Hddfv7FKvqNWxV9puMX97v6W0uFJaO_cHMGtfQ-1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56623FD9-B886-46C2-A32D-6B4B2AC20F3E@alchemistowl.org>
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:03 AM Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org>
wrote:
> 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.
>
Venix had a boot disk, and the rest of the disks were tar without
compression...
Warner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-16 3:21 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
2019-10-16 3:20 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2019-10-16 8:20 ` Matt Rudge
2019-10-16 3:50 Pat Barron
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