On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 6:13 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Is this the only bootable 3bsd distribution tape we have?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/3%20BSD/3bsd.tap.bz2/download

I don't like the idea that sourceforge is the only source, the provenance is unclear and I'm just not a big fan of how sourceforge handles downloads generally.

I've found tarballs, but not tapes on TUHS.

The TUHS stuff matches what we have on Kirk's CDs.

And it looks like one could build a boot tape from what's in sys in the tarball. It has the usual standalone files that look like V7 files.

There's usr/man/man8/sysgen.8

sysgen \- UNIX system generation from the distribution tape

I've not tried to grab that tape to see if it has the same bits as in the archive.

Warner