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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: Help booting dist.fs on my 386DX-33
Message-ID: <1993Mar2.205449.15048@coe.montana.edu>
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
References: <1993Feb23.041216.19646@alw.nih.gov> <11370@tivoli.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 20:54:49 GMT
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In article <11370@tivoli.UUCP> steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz) writes:
>
>I tried installing 386BSD recently, and this was merely the first of
>a great many problems I encountered...  The answer to this riddle (for
>me) was to press & release the left shift key...  This, for reasons
>best known to a kernel hacker, unsticks it.

This is from the keyboard driver.  What *YOU* need to do (most people
have to remove this patch) is apply patch00083, which should fix
the particular problem you are experiencing.



Nate

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