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From: dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Booting Release 0.1
Message-ID: <1992Jul17.165819.12985@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 92 16:58:19 GMT
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In article <1992Jul17.144508.141852@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de> root@rz.uni-konstanz.de writes:
>Anybody out there, who has successfully booted from the "Tiny" Disk ?
>I tried upon four different machines and had no success so far.
>

I've successfully installed 0.1 on a 486DX50 with opti chipset and AMI BIOS
(16megs, WD1007 ESDI/floppy ctlr, Micropolis 1355 170meg drive, Orchid PD2s,
WD8003EP ethernet).

I didn't notice a list of known bugs in the distribution (I may have just 
missed it).  Would someone in-the-know mind posting such a list?

If you have a 1.44meg floppy instead of a 1.2, go ahead and blast the Tiny
image onto it, it works fine.

Don't forget to copy the 'extract' program out of /tmp before going multi-user
or you'll end up having to retrieve it from the <something>.cpio file on the
Tiny diskette.  I, uh, didn't do this myself of course...

I originally had problems with an WD8003E that worked fine under 0.0.  I think
the 8003E may have problems using IRQ2 (unfortunately the default); still
looking into it.  The error message was something like 'reject 65535' and
was repeated frequently after the device was ifconfig'd.

Interestingly, 'ps aux' resulted in several errors including a 'floating point
exception.'  'ps' still doesn't look for "command strings" properly, judging by 
the output.

GENERICISA is the kernel to build.  The SMALL configuration worked under 0.0,
but it and LARGE don't work under 0.1.  

0.1 seems even faster than 0.0.  A full kernel build took ~10 minutes,
including the 'make depend.'

Installation was incredibly smooth.  Kudos to whomever was involved in writing
the 'install' program.  Installation and extraction are practically effortless.

  -Dan