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- Welcome to PUPS/TUHS 4BSD collection!
-
- If you have a VAX you want to install one of these systems on, you will need to
- first choose which system do you want and then install it.
-
- Being the new maintainer of 4.3BSD-*, I authoritatively recommend always using
- my latest release (currently 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0a). Being practical, if you have
- a MicroVAX, plain 4.3 is not an option for you, since real MicroVAX support
- didn't exist until Tahoe. Steven M. Schultz has a recipe for installing plain
- 4.3 on a MicroVAX (you can find it in tips/SMS_plain43_recipe), but all he does
- is add in some post-Tahoe pieces. If you have some post-Tahoe pieces in your
- system, you may just as well get a system that has ALL post-Tahoe improvements
- included. My Quasijarus releases are exactly such systems, and that's one
- reason why I recommend using them.
-
- You other option is Reno, if you are willing to live with its ugly POSIXization
- and factor of 2 binary and source bloat. Note, though, that I do not support
- Reno, and as Quasijarus releases support more and more VAX hardware, Reno will
- stay frozen where it is. Quasijarus0 already supports everything Reno supports
- plus a little more.
-
- For more information about 4.3BSD-Quasijarus releases, including hardware
- support, please see:
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- http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Quasijarus/
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- All 4BSD releases to date officially support only a specific set of disks.
- 4.3BSD-Tahoe introduced disk labels to allow the use of arbitrary disks, but
- unfortunately their current implementation still makes it impossible to install
- the system directly from the distribution tape onto a fresh disk that is
- unknown to UNIX and has never had UNIX on it. However, if you have a second
- disk and a copy of DEC Ultrix, you can install 4.3BSD-Quasijarus or a VAX build
- of CSRG's Tahoe or Reno release indirectly following my instructions in
- tips/QTR_disklabel_note. Future 4.3BSD-Quasijarus releases will allow direct
- installation on fresh and unknown disks.
-
- Have fun!
-
- Michael Sokolov
- New 4.3BSD-* Maintainer
- PUPS/TUHS 4BSD Coordinator
-