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Subject: repost : 386BSD from the inside out, VESA LB, AMD chip
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From: wongm@latcs2.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1993 05:28:55 GMT
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Hi,
  I posted this to comp.os.386bsd.questions, and yet I haven't got any reply
at all. I wish someone will knwo the answer now.

  1) I am looking for the book called "386BSD From the Inside-Out" as introduced
in the 386BSD installation note :

     "A book discussing the  internals  of  386BSD,  entitled
386BSD From the Inside-Out, will be available late 1992." near the end of
page 1.

  I wonder if this book is already out, if so, who are the authors, publisher,
and how much does it cost ?


  2) Also, I wonder if 386BSD will run on a Local Bus board ? As I received
from other people, other flavours of commercial PC-Unix will work fine with
VESA LB. How about 386BSD ?

  3) Finally, has anyone ever booted 386BSD with an AMD 386/40 chip ? My friend
got one of this machines that use AMD 386/40 chip, and it refuses to boot. The
situation is that, drive A: gets stucks in reading from the 386BSD boot disk.
When I boot it up with other Intel chip machine, no complaint at all.
Can anyone please shed some light ?

  Many thanks in advance!

- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au