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

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:03 AM Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo at alchemistowl.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Venix had a boot disk, and the rest of the disks were tar without
compression...

Warner
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