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From: maximum1@nic.cerf.net (Mark Geisert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Boot blocks for a BT-956C
Date: 18 Jul 1995 23:53:02 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer
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In article <3uhg42$e9t@news.cerf.net> maximum1@nic.cerf.net (Mark Geisert) writes:
>In article <3uh1d0$8rq@news.inlink.com> larkin@vulcan.inlink.com (Brian D. Larkin) writes:
>>The question is:  What boot blocks do I need to install to get it
>>to boot with the above port option?  Or does the fact that I do
>>not receive a /boot message mean that it isn't even getting that
>>far?
>
> [my earlier reply elided...]

Yikes.  I'd forgotten that I ALSO installed BSD/OS 2.0 onto a Wide drive via
the BT-956C.  It was a remote-CD install from another BSD/OS machine and
went without a hitch.  I answered all the disk-oriented install prompts with
defaults.
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