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From: henan@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca (Nan He)
Subject: 386bsd Installation
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Organization: Communications Research Laboratory, McMaster Univ
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:08:31 GMT
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  Dear Netters: 

       I am installing the i386bsd to my system, which has the
  following features:
    386 25MH, 85MB hard disk, 1.2MB and 1.44MB floppy drives, SVGA,
    Running DOS5.0 now.
  The booting disk I used was got from the output of rawrite.exe,
  with the input "dist.fs".

  Now I have the following "funny" problem: Using the MSDOS FDISK
  command, I partitioned 40MB for dos, and leave the rest for BSD
  (it's more than 40MB, which should meet the requirement for BSD).
  Then I just followed the installation note, inserted the booting
  disk of BSD into drive A and boot the machine. I answered the 
  questions appeared on the screen one by one, so after waiting 
  about 1 min, the system require me to remove the floppy disk(booting
  disk) and hit return to boot off the machine. I did, but the machine
  just keep booting self again and again, without stop. A very short
  message appeared on the screen after each booting, which flash so 
  fast I cann't read it. I had to turn off the machine to stop it.

  Now I inserted the booting disk and booted the machine again. This
  time when the system ask me if I am going to use the entire disk 
  for 386bsd, I answered yes(in the previous one I answered no, which
  just use the rest 45MB for 386bsd). So after all, I removed the booting
  disk and hit the return, I got the system! I can start to extract the
  binary distribution disks now!

  Supected that I didn't leave enough space for 386bsd, I used my DOS
  to partition the disk again, but the DOS partition just took 5MB, the
  rest 80MB was left for 386bsd. I started installation again. However, 
  If I didn't choose use the entire disk for 386bsd, but rather, the 80MB
  partitioned for 386bsd, I got the same problem again! The machine just
  keep booting, never stop.

  I am sure I read the installation note very carefully and followed 
  its instruction exactly. I don't know if anybody met similar problem
  before. If anybody could give me some suggestion or solution, I would
  be greatly appreciate it. Please send the response to this account
  appeared at the head of this post, or send them to 
    henan@sscvax.cis.mcmaster.ca 
  or
    he@neuron.eng.mcmaster.ca

  I promise to post the solution to this news group after I got it.

  Thanks!

  --Nan He
    Dept. of Elec. Eng.
    McMaster Univ.
    Hamilton, Ont.   Canada
    L8S 4K1