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From: mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Distribution: world
Subject: 386BSD 0.1 (what else?)
Message-ID: <1992Jul18.060744.16107@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca>
Organization: Sandelman Software Works, Debugging Department, Ottawa, ON
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 06:07:44 GMT
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I was in the process of bringing up my recently acquired 386DX/33 with
386BSD this week. I had taken a boot disk built by Keith White and/or a
couple of other people (no-fpu stuff) with me while shopping. Keith White
(he ported the Linux 387 emulator) pointed me at nova.cc.purdue.edu for
kernels with some aspects of the pc0<color> bug fixed. Indeed, it was
fixed on several machines that wouldn't boot 0.0 before.
Anyway, while looking for a complete archive site (after dragging
the 8 floppies off uunet, suspicious that they were under the src
directory not bin... I understand the comments in the INSTALL.NOTES...) I
discovered that many of the archive sites didn't have 0.0 online anymore.
I grabbed the 0.1 and started watching comp.unix.bsd for the formal
announcement. My 3/60 (latour.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca) still hasn't recieved
it yet, maybe tonight.
Sorry to be so long winded. I'll try to get to the point :-)
0.0-no-fpu did boot. I get wd0 extra interupt occasionally, but otherwise
no great problems.
0.1 does not manage to mount fd0a.
I rebooted with 0.0 (still on the hard disk) and copied the kernel to
the hard disk and rebooted. No change.
Hmm. Thinks I --- maybe I can get the binaries off the dos disks anyway.
I zcat'ed the baseutils.cpio.Z off of the dist disk and extracted things.
mread works.
However, I note that /bin/chmod doesn't. It tells me:
chmod: 4: Syntax error: work unexpected (expecting ")")
Given that I'm running the old kernel this doesn't really surprise me.
I wanted chmod in order to make the copy of the cpio binary that
I copied from the dist disk executable.
Hardware: BC3486F motherboard (386/33 DX)
4Mb
42Mb IDE (Seagate)
com1, com2, game, lpt1, lpt2 on multi-function card.
hercules card. (unsure of the type, I can't get a light in
the right place to see, and I don't want to shut down just now)
AMI BIOS (with every shadowing option I could find turned off)
The files were grabbed around 11:30pm Friday from gatekeeper if that makes a difference.
p.s: if you are in the Ottawa/Hull area and want a copy of my disks,
drop me a note. I'll be in the basement all weekend.
p.p.s: William & Lynne I'm CC'ing this by email just so you'll know.
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