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From: bicknell@vt.edu (Leo Bicknell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: x86 install problem.
Date: 10 Jun 1995 10:26:25 -0400
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cookson@linus.mitre.org (Dean Cookson) writes:
>I'm trying to install NetBSD-1.0 from floppies onto an IBM ThinkPad 720
>and keep running into a problem with the inst-10.fs floppy. Shortly
>after I insert it, I get a hard read error from fd0, the floppy access
>light goes on solid and the install hangs. Has anyone else seen this
>behavior?
I just installed NetBSD-1.0 on a ThinkPad 755c. It
worked witout a hitch, with two minor exceptions. The trackpoint
isn't recognized as a PS/2 mouse like it should be (I'm told
upgrading to -current should fix that, which I'm going to try
on monday), and the "virtual terminal" doesn't work at all,
you have to use the regular pc console driver. Other then that
I had no problems with anything in the machine.
I would suspect a bad floppy or a bad drive.
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