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- From: murrayc@hansford.com (Charles H. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] boot disk does absolutely nothing on gateway 4dx33v
- Message-ID: <iy0XrA-MBh107h@hansford.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:23:46 -0700
- References: <1jkdpeINNkeg@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- Organization: The Hansford Group - Contract Software Engineering and Consulting
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- In <1jkdpeINNkeg@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> tim@news.Brown.EDU (Timothy Miller) writes:
- >I have acquired the boot disk image for 386bsd, and no matter what I try,
- >when my system starts up, it displays all the bios messages, and then hangs
- >with the floppy drive light on.
-
- >My system is a Gateway 2000 4DX-33V with the ATI ultra pro VESA card, 8M of
- >memory, the gateway 124 (?not sure of exact #) keyboard, and otherwise
- >basically standard settings (one 340M IDE hard drive, no SCSI, no ethernet,
- >no funny other cards).
-
- I would be VERY interested in the answer to this as this is the system
- I want to purchase for running 386BSD. I would probably go with SCSI for
- the disk though.
-
- Timothy, if you get info via mail, either post it or send it to me, as I
- want to make my purchase fairly soon.
-
-
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- Charles H. Murray
- Software Engineering Consultant "On assignment at IBM in
- Breckenridge, Colorado USA Research Triangle Park
- murrayc@hansford.com North Carolina USA"
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