[TUHS] Simple Unix install? (was: What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?)

Arrigo Triulzi arrigo at alchemistowl.org
Tue Oct 15 19:03:09 AEST 2019


On 15 Oct 2019, at 06:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> Clearly you weren't installing Interactive UNIX/386 from floppy, like
> my first experience.  It was like pulling teeth.

Not to mention Xenix/286… the never ending 5”1/4 “HD” floppies… the ones which somehow were almost readable but not quite… then you started the install again and a different floppy failed.

Was it tar on the raw floppy? I don’t remember to be honest.

Arrigo



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