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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!destroyer!gumby!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!news.unomaha.edu!cwis!dosburn From: dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn) Subject: Help installing from 3.5 inch a: drive Message-ID: <dosburn.723844277@cwis> Summary: Installation from 3.5 inch a: drive does not work Keywords: installation, 3.5 inch floppies, Tandon Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server) Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 19:51:17 GMT Lines: 18 This is a repost of a request for help that apparently got fluked by the mail system. I did a binary download of the dist.fs and fixit.fs binary image, and the rawrite.exe program to my c: drive. Then I used rawrite to write the dist.fs image to a 3.5 inch floppy to attempt an install. (My a: drive is 3.5 inch.) When I booted the system with the disk, it just hangs with the a: drive spinning infinitely. ( I waited about 10 minutes.) After some discussion, I have come to the conclusion that the image will only work on 5.25 inch media, and that this must be the boot drive. IS THIS CORRECT, and if so, does anyone know where I can get an image for 3.5 inch media, or must I change the cabling to install. My system is a Tandon 80386SX with 4MB memory, and 105MB hard drive. It is pretty much a standard intel pc, (at least so far.) If anyone can offer assistance on installing the system I would greatly appreciate it. :-) Thanks in advance. Don