4 Oct
2021
4 Oct
'21
7:51 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 13:42, Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/4/21 12:22 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
Well now I feel a little silly. I did look in the source tree for a
document like this but couldn't find one. It does appear, however, in the
installed (for Tahoe) tree in /usr/doc/smm/01.setup.
-Henry
My question is: how was this sort of thing done
in the real world? If
I was a site running stock 4.3BSD, would I have received (or been able
to request) updated tapes at regular intervals? The replacement
process that I have been using is fairly labor intensive and on a real
VAX would have been very time intensive too. Fortunately two to three
years' worth of changes were not so drastic that I ever found myself
in a position where the existing tools were not able to compile pieces
of Tahoe that I needed to proceed, but I could easily imagine finding
myself in such a place. (This was, by the way, what I ran into when
attempting to upgrade from 2.9BSD to 2.10BSD, despite a fully
documented contemporary upgrade procedure).
Hi Henry,
I expect folks who actually ran this can weigh in with the 'real world'
perspective. What I can offer is that the document entitled, "Installing
and Operating 4.3BSD-tahoe UNIX* on the VAX" by the folks doing the
release (CSRG) is probably canonical:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/suzanhud/BSD/4.3BSD_Tahoe_VAX.pdf