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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: NetBSD doesn't like DOS?
Message-ID: <C6ssI1.HxJ@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 06:25:12 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
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I would really like to get a UNIX going on my PC. I am partial to
BSD UNIX. However, I have had some difficulties installing NetBSD to
coexist with DOS. A previous release wouldn't do what was necessary to
boot when it coexisted with DOS (I am not quite sure what that is, but I
would imagine it would involve installing a boot loader and marking the
partition active).
This version created a partition table that didn't have my DOS
partition (deleted the info), and created an entry (in the fourth slot)
that spanned from like the the beginning of the disk to something weird
like the 1023 cylinder/63 head/255th track (according to On-track Disk
Manager). Having lost my DOS partition (I didn't have backups of
everything, but that was my fault...) to trying to install this the day
before, I knew all the parameters and was able to restore the partition
table with On-track Disk Manager. The DOS partition chkdsk's fine and
the NetBSD partition fsck's fine, too. Now I just have to install the
remaining disks...
Which brings me to my next problem -- tip doesn't work. In 386BSD
I typed tip com1 and I got a session with my modem. However, I get all
these 'can't open file', 'lock failed' now -- this was after stole the
/etc/remote file from 386BSD. Is this method of obtaining the the
remainder of the distribution not supported anymore? It doesn't seem to
be in the installation notes anymore. I don't particularly feel like
downloading all the files onto disk and copying them to disk and then
copying them off disks to get them into NetBSD.
My setup:
386SX-20 w/o coprocessor
5 MB RAM
ST157A IDE
1 floppy (3.5")
1 16450 UART enabled -- connected to an external V.32bis/V.42bis modem
BTW, I also need XON/XOFF flow control when I download -- is this
possible (due to host side limitations).
P.S.Any tips on using an RS/6000 for cross-compiling (that assumes I get
this working...)?
--
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen