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From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 0.1 Installation
Date: 16 Sep 1992 13:58:31 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes:

>Hi.

>I just tried installing 386BSD 0.1 into my 386-33 8 meg system, with
>little success.  The Tiny-BSD disk booted normally, and with little
>problem.  Once I installed the systel using the "install" script,
>and rebooted, the computer goes on into an endless cycle of reboots.

>It reboots, shows a couple of system configuration things (western
>digital controller, Conner IDE, etc).  Until then, it seems fine.
>[stuff deleted...]

boot off the floppy and use `disklabel -r -e wd0 cp3100', and remove
the "badsector" flag.  or better yet, boot off the fixit floppy and
remove the :sf flag from the disktab entry.

hope this helps.

--

- rusty

eddy@usc.edu