Gallery : FreeBSD CD-ROM
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(Photo AFP – Toshiki Shirose)[/caption]Once upon a time, there was a company, that name was Walnut Creek.
Many software CD-ROM were from Walnut Creek.
That was 16-bit or 32-bit computer era, before Windows95.
Operating system was MS-DOS.
To install FreeBSD, we had to make another partition.
Then, we had to make at least two partitions to install MS-DOS and FreeBSD in the same hard disk.
Hard disk limit for MS-DOS was 2 Giga bytes, FreeBSD was no limit but we used 1 Giga bytes or 2 Giga bytes for FreeBSD.
There were many over 2 Giga bytes hard disks to install operating systems.
One reason of over 2 Giga bytes hard disk was for FreeBSD.
There were many ways to install FreeBSD, ftp, CD-ROM, from DOS partition, floppy disks.
The most easy way was from Walnut Creek CD-ROM.
We paid money for Walnut Creek and FreeBSD, with buying FreeBSD CD-ROM.
We had the good era.
We can download FreeBSD from FreeBSD official homepage now.
There are FreeBSD install CD-ROM image files.
We burn install CD-R to install FreeBSD from FreeBSD install CD-ROM image files.
We have FreeBSD 2.2.6 and 2.2.8 and 4.1 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and FreeBSD is version 10.0 now.
(Photo AFP – Toshiki Shirose)
(R.S.F. toshiki speed news press, Agence France-Presse, 21 Thursday August 2014 The Roman)
