mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler) (07/16/86)
We don't seem to have gotten a boot floppy or boot cassette with our copy of 4.3bsd. Has anyone else had this problem? Don Speck speck@vlsi.caltech.edu seismo!cit-vax!speck
kjd@ucbvax.UUCP (07/16/86)
In article <806@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler) writes: > We don't seem to have gotten a boot floppy or boot cassette > with our copy of 4.3bsd. Has anyone else had this problem? > > Don Speck speck@vlsi.caltech.edu seismo!cit-vax!speck If you are a new licensee of Berkeley Unix and pay $1000 you get the complete kit including the console media. If you are just upgrading from 4.2bsd to 4.3bsd and pay $600 you only get the tape and updated manuals. However, the difference in price is not just the console media. For new licensee Berkeley has to do more paper work, such as verify you are actually licenced with AT&T. This is where the extra cost is incured. -Kevin -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Dunlap kjd@ucbarpa.Berkeley.Edu UC Berkeley CSRG 415/643-6449 ucbvax!kjd (uucp)
mangler@cit-vax.UUCP (07/16/86)
summary of responses: There are two distributions of 4.3 bsd, one for new sites, and one for existing 4.2 sites. The latter does not come with a console floppy or cassette; you're supposed to use the ones that came with 4.2. That's fine for my machines, but it doesn't work with RA disks (the partitions are all different), as one group here has already found out and kludged around. I guess I need to make up a cassette for the groups lacking that expertise (i.e, almost everyone with RA's). Don Speck speck@vlsi.caltech.edu seismo!cit-vax!speck
kimery@wdl1.UUCP (07/17/86)
/ wdl1:net.unix / mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler) / 7:42 pm Jul 15, 1986 / ]We don't seem to have gotten a boot floppy or boot cassette ]with our copy of 4.3bsd. Has anyone else had this problem? You can use the 4.2 boot tape/floppy with 4.3 (if you have one...) Sam Kimery kimery@ford-wdl1 inhp4!sun!wdl1!kimery