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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!fas!abrown From: abrown@fas.harvard.edu (Aaron Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: x86 install problem. Date: 10 Jun 1995 17:39:22 GMT Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3rclca$jft@decaxp.harvard.edu> References: <3ra0lp$4ck@reuters2.mitre.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: fas.harvard.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dean Cookson (cookson@linus.mitre.org) wrote: : 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? The Thinkpad 720 uses an internal MicroChannel architecture for its bus. From what I understand, none of the free UNIX's (including NetBSD) support microchannel machines. This is probably where the problem lies. --Aaron +--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | * Aaron B. Brown * | "The way out is through the door. | | * Harvard University '96/7 * | How can it be that so few | | * abrown@das.harvard.edu * | people use it?" | +--------------------------------+---------------------------------------+