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- From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: It's OK now, was: Re: Floating Exception while trying install... no 387, help !
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.172812@micromuse.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 16:28:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.183035@micromuse.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Jul22.183035@micromuse.co.uk>, peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) writes:
- > This is a very quick post, since I have to go out and drink alot (it my
- > birthday - send presents please :-).
- >
- > 0.1 boots fine on a 486/25 - excellent package it is too, but trying it
- > on a real bare 386/33 with aha1542, vga and serial board gives an attempted
- > core dump and floating exception when running install. I thought the 0.1
- > version did emulation.
- >
- > BTW - I guess that npx0 is the floating point chip ??? I get that in the
- > 486 startup, but not the 386.
-
- OK. I suppose I should have tried waiting a bit... but the problem was caused
- by the disk not being 'FDISK'ed first. Running "fdisk /mbr" made it all go
- OK.
-
- I think though that the thing shouldn't core dump though. Thanks all.
-
- I am hoping to buy a Tosh 4400SXP laptop to go with it - does this work
- OK ?
-
- And double thank you's to Bill & Lynne and all the others, great system,
- --
- Peter Galbavy
- Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
- Phone: +44 71 352 7774 E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
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