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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
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:23:46 -0700
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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.


-- 
Charles H. Murray
Software Engineering Consultant         "On assignment at IBM in
Breckenridge, Colorado USA               Research Triangle Park
murrayc@hansford.com                     North Carolina USA"