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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286 Date: 11 May 1995 08:02:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3osgb5$t80@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3or8nd$sn2@news.wco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3or8nd$sn2@news.wco.com>, knight <knight@wco.com> wrote: >a unix system QUICK. I WILL be getting a pentium in 4 weeks, but i can't >speed that. I'll have Linux on that. BUT until then, i need a unix system >on 286. I have been trying MINIX but it won't load. > >Someone help me. Thanks... PLEASE point me to the old versions of FreeBSD... Sorry about that.. For legal reasons, I really can't recommend any version of FreeBSD earlier than 0.4 due the lawsuit we suffered with Texaco, who had copyrighted the numbers "0.4" in connection with a new high-octane gasoline they were marketing and ordered us to cease and desist in the face of market confusion. 0.4 was the last release we had that supported the 286, 0.3 before that supporting the short-lived 80186 (on an obscure Convergent Megaframe I had in the corner) and 0.2 both the Z-80 and 8086 architectures. Unfortunately, the TRS-80 level II machine I was doing the development on overheated and the cat, who had been sleeping on the machine before it spontaneously ignited (perhaps it was all the cat fur in the power supply fan?), lost control of its bladder as it lept off the flaming machine and did in the floppy box sitting next to it, which just happened to contain my backups. Ah well! Murphy's law strikes again.. So I'm afraid you're pretty much out of luck unless you can find an old FreeBSD 0.4 distribution someplace. A company was selling a paper tape distribution out of Antioch for awhile, but I don't know if they're still in business. When your Pentium comes, you can run Linux on it and all these problems will be behind you, eh? :-) Jordan