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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd 0.1 in 3 1/2" format Date: 16 Oct 92 07:52:51 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 29 Message-ID: <veit.719221971@du9ds3> References: <2690.2addb5a6@vger.nsu.edu> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de In <2690.2addb5a6@vger.nsu.edu> r_moore@vger.nsu.edu writes: >Hello, > I have been trying to find 386bsd 0.1 on 3 1/2" floppy format via an FTP >site. I have been to about 7 sites I found through archie but they all just >have the 5 1/4" in format. Could some please point me in the right direction ? >Thanks, Richard YAF (Yet another FAQ (frequently asked question)). 1. Format a 3,5" floppy to 1.44MB. 2. Get rawrite.exe. 3. Get dist.fs (which is 1,2MB in size) 4. copy with rawrite dist.fs to the floppy from 1. 5. Boot 386bsd from this floppy. Rawrite writes data to the first 15 sectors of a track and ignores the remaining 3 sectors of a track a 3,5" disk has in addition. >From the moment the boot sector of the disk has taken control, everything is done by direct control of the FDC registers, which do not care about the exact layout. Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"