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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!warwick!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!comlab.ox.ac.uk!blt From: blt@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Brian Thompson) Subject: Installing 386BSD on a machine with only a 1.44MB floppy Message-ID: <1993Jun20.180455.22871@demo1.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Originator: blt@demo1.comlab Sender: blt@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Brian Thompson) Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 18:04:55 GMT Lines: 31 At the moment I am trying to install 386bsd on a Compaq Prolinea 3/25sz, which only has a single 1.44MB 3.5" floppy. I have tried using rawrite to write the tiny 386bsd image, which completes with no errors. On trying to boot the disc the machine just sits there forever with the drive light on and a flashing cursor at the top left of an otherwise clear screen. The machine currently has Linux installed experimentally on it, although this has to go - I absolutely *must* have slip support so I am swapping to 386bsd if I can get it running. If anyone has any ideas, help would be much appreciated. An alternative would be to take the machine apart and temporarily install a 5.25" drive, but this isn't a practical proposition long term - the cabinet is far too small for such a drive and indeed has no spare bay for one. My own guess is that the image expects to be loaded onto a 5.25" floppy (as suggested by its size), and that the tracks are in the wrong place due to the different number of sectors when loading the image onto 3.5" instead. Thanks in advance, Brian Thompson Computer Officer Graduate Common Room Christ Church Oxford OX1 1DP United Kingdom Email: blt@prg.ox.ac.uk (Eventually root@chch.ox.ac.uk if I can get this d***ed thing working! :-) )