From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 25 19:52:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA11713 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 19:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.hiwaay.net (max1-109.HiWAAY.net [208.147.145.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11700 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 19:52:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.hiwaay.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA25451; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:24:00 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199703260324.VAA25451@nexgen.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: dg@root.com cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: dkelly@HiWAAY.net Subject: Re: BSD Anniversary In-reply-to: Message from David Greenman of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 20:50:43 PST." <199703250450.UAA01048@root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:24:00 -0600 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk dg@root.com said: > It was...challenging. Bill once commented to me "Anyone who was > actually able to successfully install 0.0 deserves a prize". It's > been so long that I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall > that you had to do everything by hand with the distribution being a > bunch of floppies that were all cat'd together...and the supported > hardware configuration was basically: pccons, floppy, and wd > controller. If you weren't a computer expert (especially with low > level details), you didn't have a snowball's chance. I installed it > (if you can call what had to be done as an "installation") on a > 386SX-25 with 4MBs of RAM. ...oh what fun THAT was. :-) Yup. I got mine running on a 4M 386DX40, might have been 2M at first. My First PC, purchased specifically to run 386BSD. Subscribed to Dr. Dobb's Journal specifically for the Jolitz series. Dropped the subscription when the series didn't continue. Downloaded and wrote (most of) the floppies with a Macintosh. Did you know rawrite runs under SoftPC? Used an unsupported UltraStor 14F SCSI card. Fortunately the 14F was able to imitate wd/IDE. Tried for a long time to get it to run two "IDE" interfaces but concluded it didn't like the idea of one drive on each interface. Even bought an FPU simply to get 386BSD to run. Never had 386BSD on a network. Recently dug that machine out of the closet, put 2.1.5 on it, and placed it in the hands of a kid who was in danger of thinking the whole world was Microsoft. Apparently he's having a blast with about 3 machines SL/IP or PPP'ed together, each with a different OS. At least one on amateur radio, the others routing to that one. Lately he has been buying $5 ethernet cards to upgrade his network. And finally he's quit calling me 3 times/night, "How do you do ... in FreeBSD?" (no, his parents won't let him on the internet). -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.