[TUHS] Are there images of any SVR2's available online?
Will Senn
will.senn at gmail.com
Sat Dec 25 02:20:36 AEST 2021
On 12/24/21 1:09 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 9:39 PM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Are there any bootable media available for any SVR 2 systems
> available online? Or are they all under IP lock and key? If so,
> what's the closest system that is available to get a feel for that
> variety of OS?
>
>
> You can find pointers to System Vr4.2 on i386 here
> https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ancient/ as well as System
> III, but nothing in between.
>
> http://squoze.net/UNIX/sysV_pdp11/Installation has system Vr1 on a
> pdp-11 installation instructions. This is, as farĀ as I know, the only
> version of System V that ran on the pdp-11. The porting target was
> changed to the VAX in system Vr2 (though there were VAX versions of
> both System Vr1 and System III, the latter on squoze.net
> <http://squoze.net>).
>
> https://archive.org/details/ATTUNIXSystemVRelease4Version2 has the
> sources to the different System V releases and claims to have a cpio
> of the System Vr2 sources that could create a bootable system.
>
> On vetusware.com <http://vetusware.com>, you can search for SYSVr2 and
> find 2 entries. I've not looked at them. One claims to be the source,
> and the other claims to be a dump of /usr with sources and binaries
> (but no "/" nor bootable tapes it would appear). The entries for these
> indicate there's animport of BSD code, but no TCP/IP.
>
> Finally, there's this page on installing System Vr3 on a 3b2 from
> scratch. https://loomcom.com/3b2/installing_unix.html looks good to my
> eye. It's an installation from floppies.
>
> But no bootable tapes that my googling could find.
>
> Warner
Thanks Warner. I remembered 3b2 coming available, but had lost track of
where. Thanks for the summary and links.
Will
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