*BSD News Article 44195


Return to BSD News archive

Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:17527 comp.os.linux.misc:43707
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!mimuw.edu.pl!hebe!krzysio
From: krzysio@hebe (Krzysztof Mlynarski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 17 May 1995 17:58:46 GMT
Organization: Division of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, Warsaw University
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <3pddgm$kdi@parnas.mimuw.edu.pl>
References: <3ovd1u$1jtd@otho.cc.flinders.edu.au> <MICHAELV.95May12203839@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3p284n$l6s@bell.maths.tcd.ie>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hebe.umcs.lublin.pl
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Timothy Murphy (tim@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:

: >In article <3ovd1u$1jtd@otho.cc.flinders.edu.au> brice@ist.flinders.edu.au (Benno J. Rice) writes:

: Just as a matter of interest, I couldn't boot FreeBSD on my Pentium/PCI.
: It just hung on the second (cpio) diskette.

Hi Tim,

	Maybe you're trying to use of 1.2M cpio disk image instead of
proper 1.44M version?

					Greetz,
					  Chris

--
  +---------------------------------------------------------------+
  | E-mail:                        =Unix/Network Security Expert= |
  | krzysio@hebe.umcs.lublin.pl    IRC:  Krzysio    Radio: SQ5ASM |
  | root@hebe.umcs.lublin.pl       Voice phone:   +48-2-617-66-58 |
  | 3W home page: http://hebe.umcs.lublin.pl/Krzysio/Krzysio.html |
  |                                                               |
  |     "You can't kill ... what was killed before ..."           |
  |                                     - unknown vampire         |
  +---------------------------------------------------------------+