Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: No disks found Date: 8 Jun 1995 17:22:13 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3r7bk5$qn1@news.bu.edu> References: <3r609i$7e5@news.bu.edu> <3r6leu$sn5@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sitting, working. Suddenly realized that J Wunsch wrote: : Mikhail Teterin <mi@cs.bu.edu> wrote: : >Here is a summary again: : > chown, chgrp (du and some others too) die from "floating exception" : ... : >My configuration: Western Digital 170Mb drive ... : You missed the most important configuration information. Which CPU : and floating-point processor are you using? Perhaps your floating- Sorry, it is Intell 486DX33 processor with built in math coprocessor. Worked fine under 2.0 since November -- not just DOS :-) Also, do why chown (and others) need floating point at all? Well, never mind the last thing (-: Thank you very much. -mi -- The following two lines are NOT related to each other! (-: "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking." "Computer hackers do it all night long..."