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From: pred@iitmax.iit.edu (Predrag S. Bundalo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: problems bringing up 386BSD 0.1
Message-ID: <1992Jul29.235017.318@iitmax.iit.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:50:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: iitmax.1992Jul29.235017.318
References: <RAEBURN.92Jul17141049@cambridge.cygnus.com> <1992Jul28.230427.2258@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
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In article <1992Jul28.230427.2258@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wrp@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Bill Pearson) writes:
>	I am also having problems bringing up 386bsd 0.1 on a DOS disk
>that contains two DOS 5.0 partitions.  I have succeeded in bringing up
>the system when I gave it the entire disk (I was able to ftp
>bindist/bin01*; extract did not terminate after 1 hr, but the system
>behaved properly), but when I try part of the disk, install goes fine,
>but when I reboot from the hard disk, the boot messages come up, and
>then a message about copying 1 Meg of memory somewhere (it always
>disappears before I can decipher it), and the machine reboots again
>and again and again.

>Bill Pearson

I have the same exact problem except I'm using a 33-386 with 8MB memory and
a 100 MB IDE disk.

Can whoever is going to help Bill please CC me as well?  Or post.

Respectfully,

Pred
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