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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!gateway.univel.com!gateway.novell.com!thisbe!terry From: terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless... Message-ID: <1992Jul20.174040.15997@gateway.novell.com> Date: 20 Jul 92 17:40:40 GMT Article-I.D.: gateway.1992Jul20.174040.15997 References: <1992Jul17.160256.4518@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul17.180345.1296@nrao.edu> <1992Jul18.044401.2343@uvm.edu> <14c75pINNh59@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul19.133144.917@lgc.com> Sender: terry@thisbe (Terry Lambert) Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com In article <1992Jul19.133144.917@lgc.com>, danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson) writes: |> Hi! |> |> First off-- *MANY* kudos to Bill and Lynne... |> |> On a personal note, with X11 not far around the corner (on 386bsd), it would |> be *very* nice to have the install program allow for at least specifying a |> swap space size. I dont know if 5Meg will suffice to run X11. The user would |> then have 386bsd installed on one large partition along with a user-specified |> swap partition. |> |> I dont know if this is a bug or not, but, after successfully installing |> the mini root on my HD and rebooting the machine, I *MUST* always re-run my |> BIOS configuration on the reboot or init dies. I have installed the complete |> 386bsd 0.1 binary distribution on my HD but for every reboot I need to re-run |> my BIOS configuration program on boot up. The configuration isnt munged, I just |> re-save it. 386bsd comes up effortlessly after the save. I have seen this problem with other OSes. Either the reset code is blowing the CMOS settings, or your batteries are nearly (but not quite) dead. I had the damndest time trying to figure out why my soft-settings on my ethernet card were blowing about two years ago. It was the reset code. I had the same thing happen with ISC UNIX to the CMOS settings; again the reset code. I had the same thing happen with SCO UNIX (it was my batteries). Regards, Terry Lambert terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.