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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!csus.edu!netcomsv!mork!resnicks From: resnicks@netcom.com (Steve Resnick) Subject: Questions about 386bsd Message-ID: <31#m5#h.resnicks@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 16:50:46 GMT Organization: What? Me organized? You should see my checkbook! Has anyone used the 386bsd on ftp.uu.net? I downloaded all the floppy files and found that one was corrupted. The boot disk didn't work, but I found one on math.orst.edu. (Thanx Archie!). Since this was the case, I downloaded from ftp.uu.net: /packages/386BSD/386bsd/floppies/3in/src/floppy.2 and then from math.orst.edu: /pub/386BSD/386bsd.03.17.92/floppies/3in/src/floppy.2 I then wrote a little program to compute a 32 bit checksum of the file contents. The results were different. Reason I am asking, is that I would like to determine if the uunet files are corrupted, and/or the ones on orst are ok. There is a LOT of hardware between the FTP sites and my floppy disks. (ftp from one site to mine, then modem (at 14.4K) to a freinds (my modem will only talk 2400/V.42 to my site). From my freinds we xfer to my house (at 14.4K), then from harddisk to a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. All seemed to go well, except for disk 2 :( The other question I have, is, I am trying to run this on a non-name 486 box, with a 202M IDE drive. Once I created the filesystem, it became fairly persistant. I backed up my DO & OS/2 system to tape, but when I fdisked, formatted and restored, all LOOKS well, but the system never boots. It trys to find 386bsd files and filesystems which are no longer there. I cannot low-level an IDE drive, and I am kinda stuck. Any ideas here? Thanx, in advance, for any info.... Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Resnick - resnicks@netcom.com steve@axebbs.kludge.com FidoNet: 1:143/105 "I just want to be the one you run to, I just want to be the one you come to. I just want to be there for someone, when the night comes" - J. Cocker -----------------------------------------------------------------------------