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From: Michael Huff <mphuff@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Running 4.3 BSD on x86 hardware? Suggestions?
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 01:46:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d88f8ac0-eed0-3dbd-7360-1791ba935c2a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABq8+zf41d-E-D=Ru4PbM_9B+aawHfEPQ-_Xe0SRefg6xLwY3w@mail.gmail.com>

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It's not 4.3BSD, but might be worth an honorable mention...

You can get FreeBSD 1.0, (based on 386BSD, based on NET/2), directly 
from the FreeBSD project:

http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/1.0/1.0-disc1.iso

And then use 86Box ( https://github.com/86Box/86Box/ ) to emulate an 
early 90's 486 and install it with FreeDOS on one partition, FreeBSD on 
the other.  There's an /sbin/mount_isofs but I haven't stumbled across a 
working combination that manages to actually see a cdrom yet. As a 
work-around I copied everything from the "tarballs" directory onto the 
freedos partition and then installed them from there.

It would probably work on Virtualbox, but I haven't tried.

Have fun!

On 8/28/2018 6:53 AM, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
>
> If I wanted to run 4.3BSD on an x86 box (VirtualBox? QEMM? other 
> emu?)... anybody has suggestions? Where can I find media for 4.3BSD 
> (if any are legitimately accessible)?
>
> Or on a Raspberry Pi? :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gilles
>
> -- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-31  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-28 14:53 Gilles Gravier
2018-08-28 15:05 ` Henry Bent
2018-08-29 10:21   ` Rares Aioanei
2018-08-29 10:27     ` Gilles Gravier
2018-08-28 15:05 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-28 15:21   ` Gilles Gravier
2018-08-31  9:46 ` Michael Huff [this message]
2018-08-29 12:23 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-29 12:45 ` Rares Aioanei
2018-08-29 13:11 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-29 13:28 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-29 13:46   ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 13:56 Noel Chiappa

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