From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 5 17:31: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (mail1.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9287C37BA0A for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 17:30:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.net) Received: from discover.siteplus.net (host-209-215-9-142.cha.bellsouth.net [209.215.9.142]) by mail1.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id UAA01656; Fri, 5 May 2000 20:30:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 20:30:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks To: A G F Keahan Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have looked around now, and the binaries are still on ftp://daemon.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/ Installing while japan sleeps should be relatively painless Hope this helps, Jim On Fri, 5 May 2000, Jim Weeks wrote: > I know that the PAO boot images are still at > http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ They will work fine. They will just have a > hard time finding your PCMCIA card ;-) > > I haven't looked around to see if the binaries are still in the > tree. They should be. > > On Sat, 6 May 2000, 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. > > > > Alex Keahan > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message