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- From: perv@flash.emf.mcgill.ca (Irwin Roger Gibson)
- Subject: Making/altering distribution diskette
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.173732.6859@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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- Organization: Engineering Microcomputing Facility
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 17:37:32 GMT
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- Could anyone explain how to go about altering/making a new
- distribution diskette for 386BSD. I am having some difficulty
- in booting. My computer hangs immediately after reading the dist.fs
- floppy. The Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights blink twice,
- and then the diskette is read for 20 seconds, and all activity
- ceases with the drive light on.
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- I tried the latest bootables on agate.berkeley.edu, but to no
- avail. Even the debug version showed absolutely nothing on the
- screen, and the computer also hanged.
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- What I would like is a brief discription on how to go about changing
- the boot disk myself.
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- Is enough code to do it contained in the bin01 distribution?
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- Can it be done (I assume it can) from dos with an assembler and
- C compiler?
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- Whatever help I can get concerning this would be appreciated. Thank
- you.
-
- Irwin Gibson
- perv@flash.emf.mcgill.ca
- perv@emf.lan.mcgill.ca
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