From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PLING_QUERY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 400ea42e for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 04:01:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id CE91B9B6B9; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:01:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105C194758; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:01:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2DF4494758; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:01:03 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 622 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:01:02 AEST Received: from booboo.lectroid.com (booboo.lectroid.com [45.56.103.166]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B536493EFE for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:01:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: from booboo.lectroid.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by booboo.lectroid.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x9G3odYS009212 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:50:39 -0400 Received: from localhost (pat@localhost) by booboo.lectroid.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id x9G3odOh009208 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:50:39 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: booboo.lectroid.com: pat owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:50:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron X-X-Sender: pat@booboo.lectroid.com To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [TUHS] Simple Unix install? (was: What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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.