Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:19:47 +0200 From: Pascal Hofstee <daeron@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> To: A G F Keahan <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good? Message-ID: <20000515171947.A53950@shadowmere.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <39137199.6D4E2049@freenet.co.uk>; from ak@freenet.co.uk on Sat, May 06, 2000 at 04:12:57AM %2B0300 References: <39137199.6D4E2049@freenet.co.uk>
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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
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