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- From: tgt@exchanger.ecn.purdue.edu (Conan the Librarian)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Another success with 386BSD
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.201358.26609@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 20:13:58 GMT
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- Here's another data point on 386bsd installation.
-
- I (finally) got the OS up and running on my system, which is:
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- Gateway 2000 486-33MHz
- ATI Graphics Ultra card
- 8 Mb memory
- Conner 202 MB harddisk (IDE)
- Two floppy drives (Epson)
- CDS Jumbo 250 tape drive (attached to floppy controller)
-
- I partitioned my harddisk into a 120MB DOS and an 82MB BSD386 zone.
- Then I formatted the DOS partition, restored all my DOS files from tape
- and verified that DOS was `happy'.
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- Next, I used rawrite to transfer the latest dist.fs floppy image (from agate)
- onto a 5 1/4" floppy disk, and tried the old cntrl-alt-del with the floppy
- in place--no go. The BIOS headers printed, but then the floppy drive light
- came on solid and the system hung indefinitely. Tried some different things
- (disabling shadow RAM, using the dist.fs.debug floppy image, etc.) but with
- no change.
-
- Eventually discovered (!!) that "tiny" would come up, but only with a COLD
- BOOT...a WARM BOOT always fails. (Any gurus out there who can tell me
- why this is???)
-
- Once I got "tiny" up and running, the installation went without a hitch.
- Kudos to Bill and Lynne not only for putting the OS together, but for also
- making the installation so painless!
-
- Did some playing around--added a couple of new users, tried out mail, came
- up in "multi-user" mode (I guess that's what you call it when it prompts you
- for a login!). Tried "/usr/distbin/shutdown -todos", but shutdown cried
- about not being able to make the DOS partition bootable (this must be a bug...
- I've seen someone else who reported the same problem). SOOO, I cntrl-alt-del
- rebooted onto a DOS floppy, and used fdisk to manually set the active harddisk
- partition back to DOS. Simple as that, and I'm back to running DOS on my
- harddisk.
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- Now to buy that 500Mb Fujitsu disk so I can really start hacking in UNIX :-)
-
- -tom
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