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From: haydedr@wkuvx1.bitnet (Ross Hayden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Tiny bsd doesn't boot
Message-ID: <1993Jun28.214958.6433@wkuvx1.bitnet>
Date: 28 Jun 93 21:49:58 CDT
Organization: WKU Computer Science Dept.
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Hello all!

I posted this same request about two weeks ago, but the same day I
posted, we had news feed problems, so I'm afraid it didn't make it
through.  Anyway...

I downloaded dist.fs, fixit.fs, and the FAQ.  Neither dist.fs nor
fixit.fs boots on my machine.  The drive just spins but never does
anything.  I saw something in the FAQ about this problem, but it never
stated a clear answer.  Anyone have any ideas for a fledgling bsd'er?

Incidentally, my computer is pretty much standard:  i486DX/33, Maxtor
HD, no local bus, ISA (it's a packaged Gateway 2000 configuration).

Thanks very much!
-- 
Ross Hayden                     |
haydedr@wkuvx1.bitnet           |     "What you see is all you get."
Computer Science Department     |                -- Brian Kernighan
Western Kentucky University     |