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- From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
- Subject: Partial success installing 386BSD 0.1
- Message-ID: <dvs.28@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Sender: news@unidus.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
- Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:50:55 GMT
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- Did anyone else experience the same effect or has a clue or a hint how to
- get more analysing information?
-
- The Tiny 386BSD 0.1 floppy boots fine on an old Siemens PCD-3T (386, 16 Mhz,
- 2 MB, original Intel motherboard, 68 MB MFM disk, 3 MB for DOS).
- Trying the easy way:
-
- # install
- 64 MB free. How many ... ? 60 (I tried 64 first, with no difference)
- Should your 60 MB ... ? y
- Do you want to install ... ? y
- High level formatting ...
- ... 112336 sectors in 826 cylinders of 8 tracks, 17 sectors
- ...
- super-block backups...
- ...
- Mounting 386BSD filesystem.
- Installing files from installation floppy.
- Extracting the distribution utilities from the installation floppy.
-
- For a minute or so there are some floppy accesses and some to harddisk,
- but then there does not happen anything else (I waited 10 to 15 minutes).
- Taking out the boot floppy triggers no reaction.
- Characters typed at the keyboard appear on the screen but show no other
- effect (^C, ^D, ^Z are simply echoed). Only C-A-Del works like usual.
-
- When I try the new 386BSD partition, - surprise, surprise - it boots !
- But the distribution utilities are not there, so I cannot go further.
-
- The effect is also independent of the presence (successfully detected)
- or absence of a 3c503 jumpered as recommended in the INSTALL.NOTES.
-
- Is there any command line switch for "install" to make it more verbose,
- so that I can figure out more closely, where the problem is ?
-
- In the root directory of the harddisk I found a file MAINFEST.base.
- From the list of files therein all files up to /usr/local/bin/mread
- exist on disk, but the remaining from /usr/bin/ftp on are missing.
- Does that give any clue ?
-
- Thanks for any help,
- Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
- Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
-