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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] on HP Vectra?
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References: <1f652iINNai2@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov27.234954.12618@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1f6iluINNhfv@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 92 08:43:55 GMT
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In article <1f6iluINNhfv@life.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1992Nov27.234954.12618@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu
|> (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
|> > In article <1f652iINNai2@life.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
|> > (Charles Hannum) writes:
|> >> I have a HP Vectra 486 on which I would like to run 386BSD.  "Out of
|> >> the box," this does not work.  When I boot the Tiny 386BSD kernel off
|> >> the hard disk, it just hangs.
|> >
|> > Any kernel on a dist.fs that has patch 3 installed will fix this
|> > problem.  There are several on agate, and a couple on rachel.
|> 
|> I tried /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/newbootables/cgd/dist.fs (I
|> think), with the same result.

The one you want is in /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/terry/new-bootables
and is called dist.starlan.cmos.fs.  This contains only the CMOS memory fix,
the "big memory" fix, and Garret Wollman's original "StarLAN" driver.  Think
of it as having patches 2 and 3 installed.

For obvious reasons (like the other 56 patches), you probably want to get a
kernel off of the 'rachel' site in the UK.  Unfortunately, I can't ever seem
to get an FTP to there myself.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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