Disk images available

[Aharon Robbins]

Hello all. I have put together a disk image with a bunch of software
preinstalled and made it available from my web site. See
https://www.skeeve.com/3b1/ for brief descriptions. Of primary interest is
https://www.skeeve.com/3b1/full+lots-sw.img.gz which has the following:

+ 12 disk foundation set
+ FIXDISK 2.0
+ development set
+ documentation preparation set
+ curses/terminfo end user disk
+ curses development set disk
+ enhanced editors disk
+ cryptograhy set disks
+ 3 login windows via inittab
+ ksh88
+ The Georgia Tech 'se' screen editor
+ gzip 1.24a
+ gnu make 2.75
+ gnu tar 1.13
+ gawk 2.15.4
+ gcc 2.5.8
+ improved df from comp.sources.3b1
+ uuencode and uudecode from comp.sources.3b1
+ patch version 2.0.0

/etc/profile has been modified to put /usr/local/bin into $PATH
before the standard directories, and to set the interrupt character
to ^C and the kill character to ^U, as per modern conventions.

In addition, https://www.skeeve.com/3b1/big-empty.img.gz is a large disk
with an empty filesystem for mounting as a second disk. It can be used
for development or whatever else you want. (mount /dev/fp012 /mnt)

Source code for gzip, gnu tar, gnu make, df, uuencode and patch are
included. GCC, gawk and SE came from the various 3B1 archives.

I believe that the last version of GCC 3.x still supported the 3B1, but
bootstrapping it is more than I have time for.

Enjoy,

Arnold

[J Booth]

Excellent Arnold! This should be great for anyone who wants to just get up and running on FreeBee and try things out. Thanks for putting this together!

Jesse

[Aharon Robbins]

I have updated the disk image with:

+ diffutils 2.17
+ Brian Kernighan's current awk
+ GDB 3.5 (doesn't work so well)

Efforts to build a newer GDB failed, due to not enough virtual address
space to compile some of the files. Sorry.

Enjoy,

Arnold

Post by Aharon Robbins
Hello all. I have put together a disk image with a bunch of software
preinstalled and made it available from my web site. See
https://www.skeeve.com/3b1/ for brief descriptions. Of primary interest is
+ 12 disk foundation set
+ FIXDISK 2.0
+ development set
+ documentation preparation set
+ curses/terminfo end user disk
+ curses development set disk
+ enhanced editors disk
+ cryptograhy set disks
+ 3 login windows via inittab
+ ksh88
+ The Georgia Tech 'se' screen editor
+ gzip 1.24a
+ gnu make 2.75
+ gnu tar 1.13
+ gawk 2.15.4
+ gcc 2.5.8
+ improved df from comp.sources.3b1
+ uuencode and uudecode from comp.sources.3b1
+ patch version 2.0.0
/etc/profile has been modified to put /usr/local/bin into $PATH
before the standard directories, and to set the interrupt character
to ^C and the kill character to ^U, as per modern conventions.
In addition, https://www.skeeve.com/3b1/big-empty.img.gz is a large disk
with an empty filesystem for mounting as a second disk. It can be used
for development or whatever else you want. (mount /dev/fp012 /mnt)
Source code for gzip, gnu tar, gnu make, df, uuencode and patch are
included. GCC, gawk and SE came from the various 3B1 archives.
I believe that the last version of GCC 3.x still supported the 3B1, but
bootstrapping it is more than I have time for.
Enjoy,
Arnold
--
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com

[DoN. Nichols]

Post by Aharon Robbins
+ diffutils 2.17
+ Brian Kernighan's current awk
+ GDB 3.5 (doesn't work so well)
Efforts to build a newer GDB failed, due to not enough virtual address
space to compile some of the files. Sorry.
Enjoy,
Arnold

So -- this is why you were asking for more swap space. Maximum
virtual memory for the system is 4 MB, same as maximum physical memory.
If your compiler is needing more memory than that -- all the swap space
in the world won't help with this system.

Maybe a cross-compiler, on something which has bigger address
space would allow you to compile it and then move it to the 3B1 image.

Good Luck,
DoN.

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Don.

Post by DoN. Nichols

Post by Aharon Robbins
+ diffutils 2.17
+ Brian Kernighan's current awk
+ GDB 3.5 (doesn't work so well)
Efforts to build a newer GDB failed, due to not enough virtual address
space to compile some of the files. Sorry.

So -- this is why you were asking for more swap space. Maximum
virtual memory for the system is 4 MB, same as maximum physical memory.
If your compiler is needing more memory than that -- all the swap space
in the world won't help with this system.

Indeed. I did manage to make a disk image with more swap space, but it
didn't help. The situation is even worse; it seems that maximum process
size is ~ 2.5 MB.

Post by DoN. Nichols
Maybe a cross-compiler, on something which has bigger address
space would allow you to compile it and then move it to the 3B1 image.

A friend is working on exactly this for me. It's a challenge, as only
really old GCC and binutils supported the 3B1. But I have high hopes he'll
(eventually) succeed. No ETA yet.

Thanks,

Arnold