[rescue] 386BSD

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun Aug 26 11:15:20 CDT 2001


On August 26, Michael S. Schiller wrote:
> While going thru some old cdroms I have hanging around here I found a
> disc from march 1993 that has 386BSD v0.1 on it. I then dug out an old
> laptop I've had sitting around here (a 50mhz 486  w/4m ram, 200m hd) and
> proceeded to spend around 2 hours (well, that included digging out the
> laptop) and 10 floppies installing it on the laptop! I was only able to
> install the bin files, as I had planned on installing the rest of the
> files via either nfs, or ftp, but the linksys pcmcia network card I have
> apparently isn't supported, so no luck there.
> 
> I can't believe I just did this. I must really need to get a real job,
> or something. (or maybe I should just get a life?)

  Wow, 386BSD!  I ran that on a 386SX/20 laptop back in about 1992.
It was really neat. :-)

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD



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