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From: Mark Allman <mallman@thoth.cs.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Installing on an ESDI disk
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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 22:58:39 GMT
Is there a special trick to getting NetBSD to install on an old ESDI
disk? (Long story, don't ask why). I can get to the point where
the install script runs newfs, but then it dies with some nasty
write errors. Has anyone had such a problem?
Thanks,
allman
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Mark Allman * mallman@cs.ohiou.edu
Ohio University Computer Science - Internetworking Research Group
"All programmers are playwrites and all computers are lousy actors"
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