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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!hookup!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!library.erc.clarkson.edu!rpi!sun1.acm.rpi.edu!alex From: alex@sun1.acm.rpi.edu (Alex Scotti) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: netbsd-386 first time install help Date: 23 May 96 21:53:01 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Lines: 28 Message-ID: <alex.832888381@sun1.acm.rpi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun1.acm.rpi.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) hello there. ive been using netbsd-amiga for quite a while, but recently went out and bought a pentium to run the thing on. the specs are as follows: ASUS motherboard with 133mhz pentium and 256k pipeline burst cache 1 gig seagate ide drive 32 megs RAM #9 GXE64Pro this is the first pc i've owned, so i may not be up to par with the idiosycracies of this hardware. i read through the netbsd-i386 install docs several times, and put everything on the irq number that it asked for (except the ide controller.. i couldnt figure out how to change the irq for it could it possibly be at the wrong irq? its built into the mb...) but when i try to boot from the install floppy, i'm having problems. after about a line or 2 of text, the message is: "Error: C:0 H:1 S:0" repeated as ininitum. what gives? i bought this hardware specifically to run netbsd, so please dont tell me it wont work. thanks a lot, -alex scotti alex@acm.rpi.edu