From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 15 8:20: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shadowmere.student.utwente.nl (wit401305.student.utwente.nl [130.89.236.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AC237B861 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 08:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daeron@wit401305.student.utwente.nl) Received: by shadowmere.student.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AEA981FEB; Mon, 15 May 2000 17:19:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:19:47 +0200 From: Pascal Hofstee To: A G F Keahan Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good? Message-ID: <20000515171947.A53950@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> Reply-To: daeron@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl References: <39137199.6D4E2049@freenet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39137199.6D4E2049@freenet.co.uk>; from ak@freenet.co.uk on Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:12:57AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:12:57AM +0300, A G F Keahan wrote: > This is a little off-topic, but is there an ftp site where I can still > download a boot floppy and an ISO CD image of FreeBSD 2.2.8? I've just > found a perfectly good 386 (DX-40, 4Mb RAM, 105Mb HDD) -- someone just > threw it away and left it standing next to my office. I want to > install FreeBSD on this poor little thing, and think that 2.2.8 would be > much more suitable for it than 3.4 or 4.0, because older a.out binaries > are smaller than ELF ones, as are the various kernel components, which > had greatly increased in size over the years. > > Let's just say I was very surprised when I couldn't find 2.2.8 anymore - > I think I did a similar ftp install on a 486 less than a year ago. In case You're willing to do an FTP-install ... check out the following FTP. ftp://ftp7.de.freebsd.org (You can even do an install of 2.1.7.1-RELEASE from there .... or 2.0.5-RELEASE if you really want to go "antique") -- Pascal Hofstee < daeron @ shadowmere . student . utwente . nl > Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message