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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cf-cm!news From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: install problems Message-ID: <28346.9208252030@thor.cf.ac.uk> Date: 25 Aug 92 20:30:07 GMT Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway I've been out of things for the last couple of months with first illness, then a holiday then a departmental move so after finally getting my machines on the net I thought I'd update my 0.0 to 0.1. I get the dist.fs onto a floppy and it boots fine, recognises all my devices and everything looks good until I type install. Bingo - Floating point exception. At this point there's not a lot I can do since there's no source for install. I'll spend the rest of this night loading the 0.0 way using the fixit.fs disk but I thought I'd better report my problem. My machine is a noname with 25Mhz OCTEK Hippo-486 motherboard ACE IDE-I/O card ST1144A IDE disk AMI Bios 4M memory Trident 1M 8900 video card It's going to be difficult to track down this problem since I'm not going to use install again so does anyone have any ideas?? If there's a difference with my motherboard then I'm going to get these exceptions again so I'd like to find out what's causing them. -- Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK. spedpr@uk.ac.cf.thor Internet: spedpr%thor.cf.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: spedpr@cf-thor.UUCP or ...!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cf!thor!spedpr +++