NetBSD 0.9

NetBSD 0.9 on VMWare

For notes going on about NetBSD 0.9, which was released around August 20th, 1993.

• NetBSD 0.9 announcement

platforms

From the source code NetBSD 0.9 supported the following platforms:

• Amiga
• HP300
• i386

Now that I found one, I guess ill have more 'significant notes'.

for now I've simply mirrored the install directory on my server....

mirror of NetBSD 0.9

I should also add I've had disk geometry errors with Bochs, and DMA and no ide detection under virtual box.. Virtual PC seems to just hang at the hard disk... However VMWare Fusion 3.1.1 on OS X works great!

booting

>> NetBSD BOOT @ 0x90000: 639/3072 k of memory   [$Revision: 1.8 $]
use options hd(1,.......to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed
Boot: [[[fd(0,a)]/netbsd[-s][-a][-d]] :-
Booting fd(0,a)/netbsd @ 0x0
text=0x6a000 data=0x5000 bss=0x1a42c total=0x8942c

Insert file system floppy

entry point=0x20
Copyright (c) 1982,1986,1989,1991 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.

NetBSD 0.9 (GENERICAHBBT) #9: Wed Aug 25 20:01:41 PDT 1993
  cgd@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:/e/users/cgd/trees/0.9-kernel/src/sys/arch/i386/c
ompile/GENERICAHBBT
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)

games

Games are pretty spartan with NetBSD 0.9 ..

banner  dm      fortune  number  primes  wargames
caesar  factor  hide     pom     rain    worms