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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! - Installation Problem.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.011957.15304@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 01:19:57 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fcom.1992Aug20.011957.15304
- References: <1992Aug19.153415.21185@opencon.com>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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- In article <1992Aug19.153415.21185@opencon.com> dlee@opencon.com (Daniel Lee) writes:
- >Hi all.
- >
- >I have been trying to install 386BSD 0.1 in my Mylex EISA machine.
- >It seems that the install program sets up the filesystem correctly
- >but it does not finish installing. It just hangs up on me. When
- >I invoke install, it formats the HD and then writes some files
- >to HD. But then, after about a minute of activity, just hangs up.
- >If I type CTRL-C, it displays the initial welcome message.
- >
- >Did anyone here had same problem? My machine config is :
- >
- > 486 EISA machine - Mylex
- > 32 M RAM
- > 1.44 M FDD - A Drive
- > 1.2 M FDD - B Drive
- > 1.0 Gig SCSI HD
- > Adaptec 1542 Controller
- > WD Elite Ethernet Card
- > Trident SVGA (8900) card
- >
- >I remove all the other cards - Tape Drive, Multi-I/O card ...
-
- Get my most recent dist.fs off of agate.berkeley.edu. It has the paged
- memory fix, the drive lockup fix, and the 82586 (starlan) ethernet driver
- from the postings in this group, as well as some significant fixes to the
- memory sense to make it boot on AT&T and HP and other machines with the
- ptdi... errors.
-
- What it doesn't have:
-
- o Chris D's fixes for zeroing out base memory for laptops.
- o The Gate A20 fix for laptops (so you don't have to hold a key
- down for it to boot and recognize the keyboard).
- o The suggested fix for the reboot code (without it, WD8003
- cards with soft setup tend to get their setup trashed as
- processor registers are overwritten in shutdown -r, shutdown -todos,
- and shutdown -to386bsd to force a soft reset)
- o The two drive fix (with 2 swap support).
-
- Most of these patches are available on agate. My boot code fixes aren't,
- yet, as I want to do a bit more with them first. No, I can't send the
- fixes to you, as I am mid project in something else and my kernel is
- rather unstable.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- ---
- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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