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- From: leisner@trianguli (Marty Leisner 311/? x?)
- Subject: Re: Installing boot disks on a sun sparcstation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.122107.26557@spectrum.xerox.com>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:21:07 GMT
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- leisner@trianguli (Marty Leisner 311/? x?) writes:
- : Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but whenever I insert a boot disk into a compaq, it starts to read the
- : disk, then reboots (displays the ram count)...in an infinite loop.
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- I just bought a cheopo PC to have at home (KLH clone, 1 meg/386 for now, 40 meg Hard)
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- My 386BSD disk boots on this machine (doesn't do anything, complains about the lack of ram...should it come up with a prompt?)
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- It prints the initial half a screen and just doesn't seem to do anything (but I ddin't expect this machine to run Unix).
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- Anyone know what wrong withthe Compaq? I tried several machines (with up to 16 meg of ram) with the same (negative) results.
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- marty
- leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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