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From: ramon@helix.nih.gov (Ramon J. Hontanon)
Subject: Help booting dist.fs on my 386DX-33
Message-ID: <1993Feb23.041216.19646@alw.nih.gov>
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 04:12:16 GMT
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I've tried to boot up tiny 386BSD for a long time now, and have had no
success with the dist.fs from 0.1 or the one in ~/bootables at 
agate.berkeley.edu. Whenever I try it, it gives me the welcome banner
and just hangs there, the A: drive light spinning....

Here's my configuration:

386DX-33 Mhz
4 MB RAM
105MB IDE Hard Drive
Trident VGA 512K VRAM board
14.4Kbps Scout Plus modem 

(I'm trying to boot off of a 1.44" floppy which I format using
the regular DOS format (5.0) and user rawrite to copy dist.fs)

Any comments will be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

Ramon

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