Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!pinch From: pinch@cs.washington.edu (Ricardo Pincheira) Subject: another person with dist.fs booting problems Message-ID: <1993Mar2.034835.1497@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 03:48:35 GMT Lines: 27 I've seen a couple of postings from people with problems booting off the "tiny" bsd floppy, and unfortunately I've not seen responses. Well, I'm another one with problems :-( . When booting from the floppy, after maybe 3 minutes or so I get the banner message, and then, nothing. Zilch. Utter death. The thing just sits there. The dist.fs I got from agate.berkeley.edu was in /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/patch-kit/ since this was recently announced as incorporating the latest patches. I copied the files into floppy from a unix machine using "dd": dd if=dist.fs.pk-0.2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=16 I figure since I got the banner message this step must have been ok. . . Thanks very much. Ricardo pinch@cs.washington.edu PS - my machine has a 386SL in it (it's a laptop), in case it matters -- Ricardo pinch@cs.washington.edu -- Just doodoo it