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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Can't boot dist.fs, Help!
Message-ID: <1993Feb23.025426.16768@coe.montana.edu>
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 02:54:26 GMT
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In article <1993Feb22.161723.8139@alw.nih.gov> ramon@helix.nih.gov (Ramon J. Hontanon) writes:
>Hello all!
>
>I got the dist.fs file from agate.berkely.edu and copied it to a 1.44
>3.5" diskette using RAWRITE.EXE (from the same site).
>
>Whenever I try to boot off of this floppy it just gives me the welcome
>banner and then it just sits there, the diskette drive light always
>on. If I try to do it a second time, nothing at all happens (not even
>a banner). Any clues?

Try the new patchkit bootables, which contain boot block fixes, and an
updated kernel.

In the unofficial/patch-kit directory on all major 386BSD archive sites.


Nate
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