[TUHS] 4.3BSD-Tahoe Restoration
David Barto
david at kdbarto.org
Tue Oct 5 05:22:24 AEST 2021
> On Oct 4, 2021, at 10:51 AM, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 13:42, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com <mailto:will.senn at gmail.com>> wrote:
> On 10/4/21 12:22 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
> > My question is: how was this sort of thing done in the real world? If
> > I was a site running stock 4.3BSD, would I have received (or been able
> > to request) updated tapes at regular intervals? The replacement
> > process that I have been using is fairly labor intensive and on a real
> > VAX would have been very time intensive too. Fortunately two to three
> > years' worth of changes were not so drastic that I ever found myself
> > in a position where the existing tools were not able to compile pieces
> > of Tahoe that I needed to proceed, but I could easily imagine finding
> > myself in such a place. (This was, by the way, what I ran into when
> > attempting to upgrade from 2.9BSD to 2.10BSD, despite a fully
> > documented contemporary upgrade procedure).
>
> Hi Henry,
>
> I expect folks who actually ran this can weigh in with the 'real world'
> perspective. What I can offer is that the document entitled, "Installing
> and Operating 4.3BSD-tahoe UNIX* on the VAX" by the folks doing the
> release (CSRG) is probably canonical:
>
> http://blog.livedoor.jp/suzanhud/BSD/4.3BSD_Tahoe_VAX.pdf <http://blog.livedoor.jp/suzanhud/BSD/4.3BSD_Tahoe_VAX.pdf>
>
>
> Well now I feel a little silly. I did look in the source tree for a document like this but couldn't find one. It does appear, however, in the installed (for Tahoe) tree in /usr/doc/smm/01.setup.
>
> -Henry
It is kind of funny that the following never got checked:
If your hardware configuration does not provide at least 75 XXX checkme XXX Megabytes of disk space ...
David
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