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Subject: Help needed for installation of 386BSD on PC!
Message-ID: <1993May10.105647.390@janus.arc.ab.ca>
From: fan@dione.arc.ab.ca (ruixin fan)
Date: 10 May 93 10:56:46 MDT
Reply-To: fan@dione.arc.ab.ca
Organization: Alberta Research Council
Nntp-Posting-Host: dione.arc.ab.ca
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Hi, Everybody,
There!
I got problems for installing 386BSD onto my PC:
Followings are the steps I got through:
I downloaded "tiny" 386BSD, called "dist.fs", and "386BSD Installation
Notes" from FTP site "agate.berkeley.edu", first I FTPed it (binary type!)
to our VAX/VMS machine, then I downloaded it (binary type again!) from VAX
to my PC (hard drive C:), and the software of communication between VAX/VMS
and PC is "PROCOMM PLUS 2.0", direct connection without modem or other card.
Then I followed what exactly described in the Notes:
1. Using "rawrite.exe" (I dwonloaded it from the same site above by
exactly the same procedures) to write "dist.fs" from the hard
drive C: to a high density floppy (I tried both 1.2M 5.25" and
1.4M 3.5" floppies);
2. I tried to boot up "tiny 386BSD" by following instructions in
the Notes:
* Insert the floppy into the driver
* type "CNTL/ALT/DEL" - I just got a msg "bad command name",
that's all, nothing happened!
Could anybody tell me what goes wrong? and what kind of steps I have
to follow through?
Any advice would be very much appreciated!
Ray.
fan@titan.arc.ab.ca