On 15 Oct 2019, at 06:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> Clearly you weren't installing Interactive UNIX/386 from floppy, like
> my first experience. It was like pulling teeth.
Not to mention Xenix/286… the never ending 5”1/4 “HD” floppies… the ones which somehow were almost readable but not quite… then you started the install again and a different floppy failed.
Was it tar on the raw floppy? I don’t remember to be honest.
Venix had a boot disk, and the rest of the disks were tar without compression...
Warner