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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!micromuse!peter From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: It's OK now, was: Re: Floating Exception while trying install... no 387, help ! Message-ID: <1992Jul23.172812@micromuse.co.uk> Date: 23 Jul 92 16:28:11 GMT References: <1992Jul22.183035@micromuse.co.uk> Sender: news@micromuse.co.uk Organization: MicroMuse Limited, London, England. Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: hilly In article <1992Jul22.183035@micromuse.co.uk>, peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) writes: > This is a very quick post, since I have to go out and drink alot (it my > birthday - send presents please :-). > > 0.1 boots fine on a 486/25 - excellent package it is too, but trying it > on a real bare 386/33 with aha1542, vga and serial board gives an attempted > core dump and floating exception when running install. I thought the 0.1 > version did emulation. > > BTW - I guess that npx0 is the floating point chip ??? I get that in the > 486 startup, but not the 386. OK. I suppose I should have tried waiting a bit... but the problem was caused by the disk not being 'FDISK'ed first. Running "fdisk /mbr" made it all go OK. I think though that the thing shouldn't core dump though. Thanks all. I am hoping to buy a Tosh 4400SXP laptop to go with it - does this work OK ? And double thank you's to Bill & Lynne and all the others, great system, -- Peter Galbavy Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd Phone: +44 71 352 7774 E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk