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From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
Subject: Partial success installing 386BSD 0.1
Message-ID: <dvs.28@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Sender: news@unidus.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:50:55 GMT
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Did anyone else experience the same effect or has a clue or a hint how to
get more analysing information?

The Tiny 386BSD 0.1 floppy boots fine on an old Siemens PCD-3T (386, 16 Mhz,
2 MB, original Intel motherboard, 68 MB MFM disk, 3 MB for DOS).
Trying the easy way:

  # install
  64 MB free. How many ... ? 60  (I tried 64 first, with no difference)
  Should your 60 MB ... ? y
  Do you want to install ... ? y
  High level formatting ...
  ... 112336 sectors in 826 cylinders of 8 tracks, 17 sectors
  ...
  super-block backups...
  ...
  Mounting 386BSD filesystem.
  Installing files from installation floppy.
  Extracting the distribution utilities from the installation floppy.

For a minute or so there are some floppy accesses and some to harddisk,
but then there does not happen anything else (I waited 10 to 15 minutes).
Taking out the boot floppy triggers no reaction.
Characters typed at the keyboard appear on the screen but show no other
effect (^C, ^D, ^Z are simply echoed). Only C-A-Del works like usual.

When I try the new 386BSD partition, - surprise, surprise - it boots !
But the distribution utilities are not there, so I cannot go further.

The effect is also independent of the presence (successfully detected)
or absence of a 3c503 jumpered as recommended in the INSTALL.NOTES.

Is there any command line switch for "install" to make it more verbose,
so that I can figure out more closely, where the problem is ?

In the root directory of the harddisk I found a file MAINFEST.base.
>From the list of files therein all files up to /usr/local/bin/mread
exist on disk, but the remaining from /usr/bin/ftp on are missing.
Does that give any clue ?

Thanks for any help,
Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.