[TUHS] 4.3BSD-Tahoe Restoration

[David Barto]

> 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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