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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA189 ; Fri, 29 Jan 93 08:00:29 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver.technet.sg!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: Can I boot from 3.5" 1.44 MB disks? Message-ID: <1993Jan28.021827.25515@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1k6mavINNpsn@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:18:27 GMT Lines: 24 Christoph Kukulies (kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote: : I tried - to no avail - to produce a booatble 3.5" floppy : because one of the next system I will feed with 386bsd only has 3.5" drives. : Also I wanted to build a disk a la fixit.fs containing necessary : programs to bootstrap the rest of the system from a running node via : rrestore (if anyone has a better idea how to automate and speedup : remote installation of 386bsd in a network his/her ideas would be heartly welcome) : Anyway - the essential question: Why does my 3.5" disk not boot? I make a disklabel and newfs on it and put a kernel and some stuff to live on it, : but I would at least expect, that the bootstrap is entered - I tried with : both versions of fdboot (the original and Julians) I was able to boot using 3.5" disk that contains an image of the 1.2Mbyte dist.fs of the 386bsd 0.0 . I've not tried the 0.1 version yet but I see no problem. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet