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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Subject: Re: install problems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.035311.25677@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:53:11 GMT
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- spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes:
- : I've been out of things for the last couple of months with first
- : illness, then a holiday then a departmental move so after finally
- : getting my machines on the net I thought I'd update my 0.0 to 0.1.
- :
- : I get the dist.fs onto a floppy and it boots fine, recognises all my
- : devices and everything looks good until I type install. Bingo - Floating
- : point exception.
- :
- : At this point there's not a lot I can do since there's no source for
- : install. I'll spend the rest of this night loading the 0.0 way using the
- : fixit.fs disk but I thought I'd better report my problem.
- :
- : My machine is a noname with
- :
- : 25Mhz OCTEK Hippo-486 motherboard
- : ACE IDE-I/O card
- : ST1144A IDE disk
- : AMI Bios
- : 4M memory
- : Trident 1M 8900 video card
- :
- : It's going to be difficult to track down this problem since I'm not
- : going to use install again so does anyone have any ideas??
- :
- : If there's a difference with my motherboard then I'm going to get these
- : exceptions again so I'd like to find out what's causing them.
-
- I had the same problems with C&T chipset motherboard with an 80387DX co-processor.
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- My solution is just to take out the math co-processor.
-
- There is a patch for npx.c posted a while ago.
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- --
- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
- Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
- Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
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