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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] Install?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.092214.28373@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:22:14 GMT
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- Glen Collins (glenc@netcom.com) wrote:
- :
- : 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
- :
- :
- :
- : Now the problem I am having is when I type install it seems to work okay
- : until it gets to the high level formating of 386bsd storage. The system
- : hangs and I must use the reset button to restart. Could this be a problem
- : with newfs and chipset settings? I have taken all cards out except the svga
- : card and floppy/harddrive controller and still no dice. Could it be a stray
- : interrupt problem with the floppy drive? I noticed when I tried to install
- : linux, it said there was a stray interrupt. Could it be that? Please help!
- : I have in the past week picked up the WD bootable fix from berekely and
- : the dist.fs for no ehternet controller but it still won't continue from
- : that sticking point.
- I have the same problem with a different motherboard, a 386/33. Ami Bios.
- I don't think it is a bios problem. Most probably, motherboard problem, which
- could be affected by the CMOS and chipset setting.
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- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
- Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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