Version 4.4 sick and dying

[Erich Dollansky]

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