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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: 386bsd install program :-) References: <RAEBURN.92Aug19005834@cambridge.cygnus.com> Date: 19 Aug 92 11:32:33 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.714223953@du9ds3> Lines: 28 In <RAEBURN.92Aug19005834@cambridge.cygnus.com> raeburn@cambridge.cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn) writes: >I was having some problems with the "install" script, when trying to >re-install my disk, and decided to go through it by hand. I looked >through the install binary so I could copy some of the commands (it >runs at least some as subprocesses), and found these: > No disk drive to install 386BSD on. > Would you care to have it installed on your TV instead? (y/n) > Sorry, installation on TV sets not allowed per CCIR, "Green Book" > 15th Plenary Assembly, Geneva 1982 Vol. 9, Part I, > International Telecommunications Union. >Um... has anyone ever actually gotten these messages? :-) >Ken No problem. Just try to install 386BSD on a 386 system without any hard disk. Perhaps we might consider making a kernel image with a memory file system for diskless 386-PCs with 64MB main memory ;-) Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"