Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 20:22:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.net> To: A G F Keahan <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005052015400.1192-100000@discover.siteplus.net> In-Reply-To: <39137199.6D4E2049@freenet.co.uk>
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I know that the PAO boot images are still at http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ They will work fine. They will just have a hard time finding your PCMCIA card ;-) I haven't looked around to see if the binaries are still in the tree. They should be. On Sat, 6 May 2000, A G F Keahan wrote: > This is a little off-topic, but is there an ftp site where I can still > download a boot floppy and an ISO CD image of FreeBSD 2.2.8? I've just > found a perfectly good 386 (DX-40, 4Mb RAM, 105Mb HDD) -- someone just > threw it away and left it standing next to my office. I want to > install FreeBSD on this poor little thing, and think that 2.2.8 would be > much more suitable for it than 3.4 or 4.0, because older a.out binaries > are smaller than ELF ones, as are the various kernel components, which > had greatly increased in size over the years. > > Let's just say I was very surprised when I couldn't find 2.2.8 anymore - > I think I did a similar ftp install on a 486 less than a year ago. > > Alex Keahan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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