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- From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] Install?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.040722.21529@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov10.031011.18762@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:07:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.031011.18762@netcom.com> glenc@netcom.com (Glen Collins) writes:
- >Hello!
- >
- > Well I have not yet received any reply's for help in installing
- >386bsd. Can you please e-mail mer post here about a solution????
- >I can now see that it maybe a bios setting. I have tried to install
- >linux also with the same problems. Here is what I have:
- >
- > Hot307 80386 33/40
- > AMI Bios/ OPTI chipset
- > Total of now 6 Megs of memory
- > 104 Meg harddrive (rll'ed)
- ^^^^^^
- > 68 Megs for 386bsd
- > 5 Meg boot partition
- > 30 Meg extended dos partition
- > Generic WD Harddrive/Floppy controller
- > Trident SVGA card (1 meg)
- > Microsoft mouse
- > Proaudio spectrum card
-
- I am just guessing, but if you have an MFM disk and RLL controller
- which squeezes 50% more the capacity into the disk, you might try a
- manual install and be careful to specify the number of sectors/track as
- seen by the RLL (e.g., 26 instead of 17). I have heard rumorred (by
- someone whom I made a fool of myself quoting in the past...) that some
- MFM disks are not fast enough to be RLL'ed. Anyhow, you might consider
- this a potential source of problems if neither Linux nor 386BSD
- installs...
- -Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>
-