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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!CsMSc1.ru.ac.za!g89r4222 From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-Lite on a 386 Date: 20 Oct 1994 07:13:49 GMT Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services Lines: 44 Message-ID: <3855bd$sae@quagga.ru.ac.za> References: <CxxJss.Cv@cunews.carleton.ca> Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za NNTP-Posting-Host: csmsc1.ru.ac.za X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <CxxJss.Cv@cunews.carleton.ca> gchan@superior.carleton.ca (Gordon Chan) writes: > Has anybody tried installing 4.4BSD-Lite on a 386 with the >bare minimum installation of NetBSD-0.9, 386BSD-0.1, or FreeBSD-1.5.1? >I've read the 4.4BSD-Lite release note and it said that >it required an "already running system" for it to be installed. Only portions of the 4.4-Lite tape will actually "work" - that is compile as they are. The kernel has a few "bits" missing (due the stupid USL court case), and there is some missing functionality elsewhere in the tree. To actually go and bootstrap the 4.4-Lite tape into a complete running operating system (which is in effect what the development of FreeBSD 2.0 has involved) is quite a large effort, and something best handled by a team of people :-). (Getting FreeBSD 2.0 working involved taking the 4.4-Lite tape, and then porting and folding in functionality from FreeBSD 1.x as well as getting other missing bits, like BIND, FLEX, all the GNU utilities, which are part of FreeBSD etc. -- OK: this is a rather oversimplified view of what the process of turning the 4.4-Lite distribution into a working OS involves.) FreeBSD 2.0 is now heading into release cycle, (we are busy working on our alpha release right now), and hopefully you will see more concrete details on the timetable of the release withing the near future. (There is no point in me giving any dates, as I am not the release engineer, and the final schedule is in his hands.) Geoff. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQBVAgUBLqYYoMmtR07KMR7ZAQHqtQH9HvaF/g6oWj83OYVQIqVb0GRyzM9mGQfw 0d9tNsO9Sub5HK0xkmk1CYWE/ct86cqiZlEOP68cdj8EzgZeKJkUYQ== =ExwB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, Rhodes University, South Africa FreeBSD core team: csgr@freebsd.org | ____ _ o /\ csgr@cs.ru.ac.za, geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |___ _-\_<, / /\/\ finger rehmet@cs.ru.ac.za for PGP public key | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \