From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 22:14:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA10208 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:14:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA10197 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.6.9/8.6.9.1) id XAA15277; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:13:46 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Path: freefall.freebsd.org!owner-freebsd-questions From: mitayai@dreaming.org (Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe) Newsgroups: rtd.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:17:45 -0500 (EST) Lines: 40 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Dave Walton wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:16:13 -0800 (PST) > From: Dave Walton > To: Terry Lambert > Cc: Jaykork@aol.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? > > On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Hi there, I have a DEC 286 VaxMate computer, is there any way that I can run > > > FreeBSD unix on it? If not, can you suggest a flavor of UNIX that will run on > > > the 286? > > > Minix (you might find an older copy of the Tannenbaum book with a disk) > > Hmmm... I may just have a set of Minix disks laying around here > somewhere. If someone can tell me how to make disk images from them, I'd > be glad to mail the images to anyone who really needs a 286 unix. > i think this wil work.... stick the disk in your FreeBSD box and dd if=/dev/rfd0.1440 of=disk1.img (insert appropriate floppy device) :) sure, i'd love a copy. :) -Mit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe at DreamLabs Community Information Network Toronto/Peterborough/Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Web: http://www.dreaming.org/~mitayai IRC: Mitayai Email: mitayai@dreaming.org