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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!nic.csu.net!nic.csu.net!nntp Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Booting of dist.fs..nothing Message-ID: <1993Mar24.202700.4562@nic.csu.net> From: jtmack@futon.SFSU.EDU () Date: 24 Mar 93 20:26:59 PST Distribution: world Organization: San Francisco State University Nntp-Posting-Host: futon.sfsu.edu Lines: 28 My woes: I have been trying to get 386BSD up for some time now. First I found out my controller card was imcompatable...so I got a new one. Even with the new card (Adaptec 1542C) when I try to boot from dist.fs the drive light just stays on and nothing seems to be kicking in..not even a carriage return or the sound of the 3.5 drive reading any information. Presently I have: Adaptec 1542C (rent what rent..) A Truecolor graphics card. Sound Blaster Pro. External 14.4K modem <- com 1 serial mouse <- com 2 a Toshiba XM-3100 Maxtor 8076 640meg SCSI and some Seagate 40meg IDE drive My machine itself is a Packard Bell 386sx (AXCEL 386sx) running at 16mhz I have both the dist.fs off my FTP corp. cd-rom plus the dist.fs.att-vect one. I thought the controller card would solve this problem of the disk not even being recognized and just sitting there, but I should have known that it would boot anyways but not "see" the SCSI. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jim Mack jtmack@sutro.sfsu.edu