Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:06:29 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Cc: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, julian@whistle.com, root@triton.press.southern.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting older versions of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199902041906.UAA02466@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902031642130.359-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Feb 3, 99 05:17:30 pm"
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As Chuck Robey wrote... > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > On Wed 1999-02-03 (14:41), Drew Baxter wrote: > > > What's really sad is I still have a January 1994 2.0 CD around here.. > > > > We have a 1.0 CD, which is rumoured to have been mastered on a previous > > incarnation of the machine I'm on. Have looked around on the filesystem, > > but haven't quite got up the courage to try install it. (Besides, I'm not > > sure the hardware I have around would be supported.) > > You want to be a little careful here. Some folks who were around then > may recall that 1.1 (as it was labelled) had to be released twice, > because the first issue had a screwup, and although all the files showed > up, the data on the disk for about half of them was garbage. Labeled 1.1? Mine definitely says 1.0 on the paper and on the CD itself. And december 1993. > Both cdroms (the good one and the bad one) came in identical cases, and > were silkscreened the same, but one was labbelled "1.1", the other "6/94 > Beta" in the nearly invisible labelling near the center ring. There was Mine says "Mastered by Nimbus" and "FreeBSD CDROM" in the center. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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