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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!cunews!revcan!sidus!zone4!latour!mcr 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 Lines: 60 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. -- :!mcr!: | The postmaster never | So much mail, Michael Richardson | resolves twice. | so little time. HOME: mcr@sandelman.ocunix.on.ca Bell: (613) 237-5629 SCHOOL: 192228@physics.carleton.ca