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From: terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless...
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Date: 20 Jul 92 17:40:40 GMT
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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
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Disclaimer:  Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of
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