Nostalgic II…
Looking for a backup (that obviously i did not find), i have saw some funny things in my stuff… ;-)
So, i have decided to publish them here, in the name of the old times. FreeBSD 2.2.6 from April 1998, that is pure gold! A full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32-bit Operating System. And the 4.0 from March 2000.
FreeBSD (Walnut CreeK CDROM’s), and OpenSolaris:
Nostalgic I
Nostalgic Picture II
Nostalgic Picture III
The installation instructions were nice to read again:
“Build a FreeBSD boot floppy from the floppies/boot.flp file in a FreeBSD distribution. Either simply use the “makeflp.bat” script from DOS or read floppies/README.TXT for information on creating bootable floppies under different operating systems”.
Nostalgic Picture IV
“If you don’t have a CDROM and would like to simply install over the net using PPP, slip or a dedicated connection, simply fetch the FreeBSD-release/floppies/boot.flp file, and follow section 0.1.3 above”.
No doubt, the better installation procedure at the time (GNU/Linux, Solaris, etc). Hmmm, maybe even in these days…
Nostalgic V
Installing from a DOS partition:
C> MD C:\FREEBSD C> XCOPY /S E:\BIN C:\FREEBSD\BIN
So, reading the line:
“… we really do recommend a fresh installation for 2.0 systems! (But back up your data first ;-)”.
I did remember that i need to find my backup…
ps.: The FreeBSD project have just announced the 7.1 release (with Dtrace integration).
peace.
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be ;-)
I recently had a clear out of my house, and found FreeBSD walnut creek cases, as well as some old Infomagic jewel cases! – “The Linux Developers Toolkit” I believe it was, with the “Elfos” character on the front, heralding the coming of ELF :-) I believe FreeBSD 3.0 walnut creek case had “Now ELF!” on the front too.