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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!brian Subject: Re: 386BSD -- WHERE TO GET IT? Distribution: world References: <g+!x5vr@dixie.com> Organization: tp Reply-To: Brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 33 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 19:16:48 +0000 Message-ID: <741554208snz@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <g+!x5vr@dixie.com> karl@dixie.com writes: >Where (besides BSDI) is the best place to get 386BSD? > >I would like to get a distribution tape if possible, but I can download >it off the net if necessary. I have heard that Berkeley is no >longer providing distribution tapes -- so where is the next best place? > >Are the tar files on ftp.uu.net the complete distribution? Does it come with >a loader? In other words, I want it, but I've got no clue about where >to get it and how to load it. How about giving me one. > >Thanks >-- >He who would trade his liberty for | Karl Klingman >security deserves neither. | American Research Group, Inc. > | karl@arginc.com > I can't really answer fully, but as far as I can remember... On site freefall.cdrom.com you can pull down a DOS(yeuck) .exe called either write.exe or rawwrite.exe along with a 1.4 Meg file. The write program writes the file to a floppy under DOS(yeuck), and the result is a bootable 386bsd install disk. All the other sources, binaries and patches are there too. Don't take my word for it... have a look around. This is from memory, although the named site is where I got the patchkits. -- Brian Somers