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From: opjnw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams)
Subject: Re: help booting from dist.fs
Message-ID: <1993Feb20.043450.9997@coe.montana.edu>
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References: <1993Feb19.183232.4224@nic.csu.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 04:34:50 GMT
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In article <1993Feb19.183232.4224@nic.csu.net> jtmack@sutro.SFSU.EDU (James T. Mack) writes:
>
> Thanx for the response before. But, I'm still dead in the water.
>I got the patch for dist.fs <- the ATT & HP patch and it's still just floating
>It takes over my system too, so I can't CTR-ALT-DEL out. I'll explain my system
>and explain what I have.
>Sytem: Packard Bell Axcel 386sx, with Phoenix ROM BIOS 1.10 02
> Adaptec AHA-1522 controller.
^^^^
Other than having an unsupported hard drive controller, it should still
boot off the floppy. (Though that won't do you any good)
> Maxtor 640 meg drive.
> Toshiba XM-3300 CD-ROM
> Truecolor 1280 VGA card, Pixel Engineering (*yuck*)
> SoundBlasterPro card.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This could EASILY cause it not to work. A friend here on campus can't
get 386BSD to boot on his machine, and the exact same machine w/out the
card boots fine.
Nate
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