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From: hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us (Greg Hackney)
Subject: Re: dist.fs.pk-0.2 doesn't see Compaq IDE drive
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 13:45:11 GMT
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bnixon@fnma.com (Bill Nixon) writes:

>I am having problems installing 386BSD on my Compaq 486/33M.  It
>has a ~300Mb IDE hard drive, which the TinyBSD floppy doesn't see.

I couldn't get the floppy boot to work on an M-box either. I didn't
have time (at the time) to figure out why, so I built up the disk on
another non M-box Compaq system, and then put the drive in the M-box. It
will boot okay off the hard drive once it's installed.
--
Greg Hackney
hackney@moxie.hou.tx.us