[TUHS] Pre-v6 images and 2.11BSD patches

Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
Sat Dec 12 16:33:17 AEST 2015


On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 01:25:43AM -0500, Random832 wrote:
> Warren Toomey writes:
> > We got the 1st Edition kernel up a while back and it had no groups.
> > Look for unix-jun72 on Github.
> 
> Did anyone else ever try getting the v2/v3 kernel (i.e. the two
> images on s1-bits, which I was able to determine is an init tape
> as described in V3/man/man8/bproc.8) running? I remember getting
> it working for myself in single-user mode, but ran out of space
> trying to extract s2-bits (presumably the matching /bin-/etc-
> /lib tape), couldn't figure out how to make or mount a second
> filesystem (or if it was possible at all), and there didn't seem
> to be any interest here at the time, and now I can't remember
> what I did to get as far as I did.

We used the binaries on the s2-bits tape as the binaries for the
v1 kernel. We had to tweak things a bit so that we could run the
first C compilers.

It's all bundled up at https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix-jun72

Cheers, Warren



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