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oops. it's the 4.0 bootblock, just as I used the 4.0 boot block on the 4.1 tape...

hours of fun on that one! Next, onto v9. For some reason I never uploaded 386BSD 0.0 .. so it's now on here. Also the uploads are now going to v0 instead of v0.4 ...............

The SLS variety. I've had these 0.98 disk images floating around for the better part of forever, and I thought I should upload them here. I have a runnable disk image too somewhere when I find it, I'll add it onto here as well.

I also found rdebath's github page with an extracted ISO image and some instructions on reconstituting the image, and I've uploaded the following ISO into here. SLS 1.02 is far more complete than 0.98.

I've added in everything you need, a working cross compiler, and batch files that can generate a working Linux kernel, a qemu emulator with root image all ready to go! If you have ever wanted to mess with Linux 0.11 from the comfort of Windows, this is your big chance. Of course it works better with a functional make program and something like MSYS behind it, but GCC 1.40 really is running as a Win32 executable!... read more