OK, I was able to locate 2bsd.tar.gz and spencer_2bsd.tar.gz in the archive. Neither is an installation tape. It appears that they are just tarballs of their respective systems (there are very minor differences between the two).

In the TAPE file in the tarball, it talks about reading the tar program off of the tape using:
dd if=/dev/mt0 bs=1b skip=1 of=tar

Well, tar is definitely not located at that address, which implies that the tarball isn't a distro tape. This note in the archive used to read:

...

The remaining gzipped tar files are other 2BSD distributions supplied by
Keith Bostic, except for spencer_2bsd.tar.gz which came from Henry Spencer.
They do not contain installation tape images. The 2.9BSD-Patch directory
contains patches to 2.9BSD dated August 85, and again supplied by Keith Bostic.

...
now it reads:
...

2.11BSD 2.11BSD-pl195.tar is a copy of 2.11BSD at patch level 195, supplied
by Tom Ivar Helbekkmo. spencer_2bsd.tar.gz is a version of 2BSD which came
from Henry Spencer.
...


I recall having to do something with cont.a files, which are not present on these images. So, my questions is, does anyone know of or have an actual 2bsd tape/tape image?

Thanks,

Will

Here's where I found the tarballs:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/UCB/

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