Re: [TUHS] 2bsd tarball

Both of the 2bsd tapes you found are from the days when Berkeley just sent patches to the 7th Edition out. The 2.8BSD tape was the first one to have a kernel that was bootable from the tape. The 2BSD tapes originally had 2 files on them. The first one was a binary copy of tar that ran on V7. The second was a tarball of all the rest. As you discovered, they shipped with a label like:         Second Berkeley Software Tape         May 10, 1979    TAR 800BPI         %dd if=/dev/mt0 bs=1b skip=1 of=tar         %chmod 755 tar         % tar x         10000 blocks but the 2bsd.tar.gz file has just the second file. The spensor_2bsd.tar.gz has a tar binary in it: tar tvf spencer_2bsd.tar.gz | head -rw-r--r--  0 0      0       24688 Feb 17  1980 tar -rw-r--r--  0 0      10       3687 Feb 17  1980 tar.1 -rw-r--r--  0 0      10        456 Feb 17  1980 tar.ms <http://tar.ms> -rw-r--r--  0 0      10      15216 Feb 17  1980 install.ms <http://install.ms> if you are looking for that pre-built. If you are looking to create a tape with tar on it to extract other tar tapes, you'd need to use a variation on the maketape.pl <http://maketape.pl> with a block size of 1 so the above dd will work on the target system...