4.3BSD Quasijarus

[Mark Wickens]

John Floren wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:30 PM, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I was poking around Google today and came across 4.3BSD Quasijarus as
>>> something that might be interesting to try in SIMH and maybe on my
>>> VAXstation, but the ftp site seems to be empty. Does anybody have a
>>> mirror of the Quasijarus 0c distro? Without seeing the files, I don't
>>> have any idea how it is distributed... I'm hoping it's a CD-ROM image
>>> so I can install easily on my vaxstation--anybody know? And yes,
>>> NetBSD is just too new for me :)
>>>
>>>       
>> Looks like a set of file that are decompressed and then written to a
>> tape and then the VAX is booted from that tape.
>>
>>    62,652 stand.Z
>>   985,822 miniroot.Z
>>  2,082,177 rootdump.Z
>>  7,300,252 usr.tar.Z
>>  2,803,165 srcsys.tar.Z
>> 10,961,052 src.tar.Z
>>
>> 1. stand  (512 byte records)
>> 2. miniroot (10240 byte records)
>> 3. rootdump (10240 byte records)
>> 4. usr.tar (10240 byte records)
>> 5. srcsys.tar (10240 byte records)
>> 6. src.tar (10240 byte records)
>>
>>     
>
> Weak-sauce, as my contemporaries would say, because I don't have a
> tape drive or any tapes. I could still try it on SIMH but the eventual
> goal is to get something on the VAX
>
> John
>   

As far as I remember this particular OS only runs on a limited subset of 
particularly old VAX iron, and is not supported on VAXstations. You may 
get some joy from SIMH however.

Regards, Mark.