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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!news.amherst.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!uhog.mit.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: zctyibm@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Ian B Maloney) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD from 2.88meg floppies Date: 1 Jun 1994 18:07:22 -0500 Organization: University College London Lines: 26 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <1994Jun1.175644.26272@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu Keywords: NetBSD installation Greetings I have a problem installing NetBSD 0.9 to the following IBM TP750 notebook 486 12meg 340m hard disk 2.88meg diskette drive The problem is in booting the kernel. From a diskette that was formatted at 1.44 with a kernel image made with dd I get as far as the bootstrap program (i.e. shows netbsd parameters) but then gets diskette errors trying to read kernel. This diskette works fine on another machine. From a floppy originally formatted at 2.88 I get further. It reads the kernel (apparently) but when it tries to enter the kernel at the message 'insert file system floppy' it reboots. Can anybody give me some advice. Thanks Ian Maloney