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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!biosci!parc!decwrl!netcomsv!netcomsv!kla!brandari From: brandari@anl433.uucp (Paul Brandariz x6546) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: another person with dist.fs booting problems Message-ID: <C3C1JJ.7yB@kla.com> Date: 3 Mar 93 21:40:31 GMT References: <1993Mar2.034835.1497@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@kla.com Organization: KLA Instruments Lines: 40 Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.9.200.78 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 pinch@cs.washington.edu (Ricardo Pincheira) writes: : 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 You need to use the rawrite.exe program to copy the dist.fs file to the boot diskette not dd. Download dist.fs to a PC and rawrite.exe (see the tools directory) then use rawrite. -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Paul R. Brandariz E-mail Internet: paul.brandariz@kla.com KLA Instruments Corp P.O. Box 49055 Voice: (408) 456-6546 San Jose, CA 95161-9055 Fax: (408) 434-4273 ___________________________________________________________________________