Installing 386BSD on BOCHS

Template:Newpage This is the procedure that I have used to install 386BSD onto a patched version of the Bochs IA-32 emulator. This is based on ancient FAQs and trial & error. It is assumed you use a modern Linux with a kernel that features the ip_tables packet filter and TUN/TAP as host OS. If you want to use a different platform you can still follow the tutorial as a guideline but you are on your own figuring out how to get the emulator networked. A good starting point is http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook/user/bochsrc.html#AEN1831

Special attention has been given to the ability to run the emulator in the background.

Requirements

You will need the following to get a 386BSD system patched and installed:

• A modern linux system with iptables
• A working copy of gunzip
• An http/ftp client like wget
• An acceptable C compiler like gcc to compile Bochs
• The curses/ncurses library for Bochs to simulate a monitor in a terminal
• An ftp server for the distribution files

On a stock Basic Fedora Core 8 box you have these in no time with

yum -y install wget
yum -y install gcc
yum -y install gcc-c++
yum -y install ncurses-devel
yum -y install vsftpd
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You also need
*The bochs 2.4.2 sources
*A patched pic.cc
*The 386BSD distribution and patchkits
but we will get to that later in the tutorial.

For those attempting to install on a different platform:


You can download the Bochs sources from sourceforge
*http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bochs/bochs/2.4.2/bochs-2.4.2.tar.gz


A patched pic.cc can be found at http://www.xs4all.nl/~dugo/pic.cc
*http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/32v/32v.tap.bz2/download


The 386BSD 1.0 distribution and patchkits can be found at
*ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/BSD/
*http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/distributions/386BSD/ 


Preparing for installation
Boot 1.