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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Lite?
Date: 7 May 1997 12:46:29 GMT
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Josh Lynch <tyme@nospam.visi.com> wrote:

> I recently got the 4.4BSD-Lite source, and was wondering what exactly is
> missing (what files I mean) to make a bootable i386 system?

Quite a bunch.  You should really try Free/Net/OpenBSD, they are
basically just that: 4.4BSD-Lite(2) plus the missing pieces.  That's
man years of work.  (Simply install a *BSD tree on your system, and
run a diff against the 4.4BSD-Lite stuff, i think it will be several
100K lines of added functionality, bugfixes etc.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j