Re: Version 4.4 sick and dying

From: Erich Dollansky (oceanare_at_pacific.net.sg)
Date: 06/08/05

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    Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:13:01 +0800
To: sydoh@fidalgo.net

    Hi,

    Sydney Hole & Owen Huffaker wrote:

    > Wonder if you can give me a little advise.
    >
    But not much more.
    >
    > I do have a copy of BSD 4.5 and 5.o from a FreeBSD Unleashed book by Michael
    > Urban and Brian Tieman. I also have the absolute BSD by Michael Lucas.
    >
    I would not touch them as they are really old.

    Can you download either 4.11 or 5.4, burn a CD and start from scratch?

    It would save you a lot of time as the original disk is dead anyway.

    All you could do is a copying the rescuded data over after the systems
    works again.

    I expect that it would be hard to find help here for older versions of
    FreeBSD.

    It should not be a problem to run the new versions on old hardware.
    Friends of mine do this all the time without any serious problems.

    Erich
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