From: Pat Barron <patbarron@acm.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Simple Unix install? (was: What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:50:39 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1910152340090.9141@booboo.lectroid.com> (raw)
Possibly the most time consuming install I did was installing Xenix on a
bunch of Intel i310 systems. Xenix was a "secondary" OS for these
systems, the main OS being iRMX. Xenix for these systems was distributed
on 5.25" floppies. Lots and lots of floppies... They came in a 3-ring
binder, many pages of floppies... We also had a couple of i380 systems,
Xenix for those came on 8" floppies... That was time consuming, but it
was just manual labor.
The most unpleasasnt install I can recall was AIX 2.2.1 on the IBM-PC/RT.
Which also was really (under the covers) Interactive UNIX, with some other
stuff mixed in. Not only was this also time-consuming with a binder full
of 5.25" floppies, but my recollection is that there were too many
opportunities to make a tiny little mistake during the install and have to
start all over again.
--Pat.
next reply other threads:[~2019-10-16 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-16 3:50 Pat Barron [this message]
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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
2019-10-16 8:20 ` Matt Rudge
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