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From: resnicks@netcom.com (Steve Resnick)
Subject: Questions about 386bsd
Message-ID: <31#m5#h.resnicks@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 16:50:46 GMT
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Has anyone used the 386bsd on ftp.uu.net? I downloaded all the floppy files
and found that one was corrupted. The boot disk didn't work, 
but I found one on math.orst.edu. (Thanx Archie!). Since this was the 
case, I downloaded from ftp.uu.net: 
	/packages/386BSD/386bsd/floppies/3in/src/floppy.2
and then from math.orst.edu:
	/pub/386BSD/386bsd.03.17.92/floppies/3in/src/floppy.2

I then wrote a little program to compute a 32 bit checksum of the file
contents.  The results were different. Reason I am asking, is that I 
would like to determine if the uunet files are corrupted, and/or the
ones on orst are ok. There is a LOT of hardware between the FTP sites
and my floppy disks. (ftp from one site to mine, then modem (at 14.4K)
to a freinds (my modem will only talk 2400/V.42 to my site). From my
freinds we xfer to my house (at 14.4K), then from harddisk to a 3.5" 1.44M
floppy. All seemed to go well, except for disk 2 :(

The other question I have, is, I am trying to run this on a non-name
486 box, with a 202M IDE drive. Once I created the filesystem, it became
fairly persistant. I backed up my DO & OS/2 system to tape, but when
I fdisked, formatted and restored, all LOOKS well, but the system never
boots. It trys to find 386bsd files and filesystems which are no longer 
there. I cannot low-level an IDE drive, and I am kinda stuck. Any 
ideas here? 


Thanx, in advance, for any info....

Steve

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