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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!tnosoes!tom From: tom@izf.tno.nl (Tom Vijlbrief) Subject: 0.1 up on my compaq (The clean way) Message-ID: <1992Sep22.074600.25816@izf.tno.nl> Organization: TNO Institute for Perception Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 07:46:00 GMT Lines: 26 I have patched my bootblock as akihiro HIGASI <higasi@mlab.nttdocomo.co.jp> suggested: >00E4: E4 -> EB >00E5: 84 -> 00 > >00F5: E4 -> EB >00F6: 84 -> 00 > >I cut 7.5kb (fdbootblk) from dist.fs, rewrite them using "debug" and >over write it using rawrite. Now the installation floppy boots smoothly. The only problem I'm having is that 386bSD reports that it is low on memory (I have only a 2Mb Compaq) and that it is running in degraded mode. The install scripts seems to hang after a while for this reason. 'exec install' instead of 'install' gave me just enough memory and a bootable image on my harddisk, which I'm now exploring :-) Tom