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[72.42.167.51]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 14-v6sm2172696ity.8.2018.08.31.02.46.03 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 31 Aug 2018 02:46:03 -0700 (PDT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: From: Michael Huff Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 01:46:01 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------84F3499D2D11D200C58F8134" Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] Running 4.3 BSD on x86 hardware? Suggestions? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------84F3499D2D11D200C58F8134 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 > > -- > /*Gilles Gravier*/ - Gilles@Gravier.org > GSM : +33618347147 and +41794728437 > Skype : ggravier| PGP Key: 0x8DE6D026 > --------------84F3499D2D11D200C58F8134 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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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