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From: gnn@cs.utwente.nl (George Neville-Neil)
Subject: Re: 386BSD running on Compaq anything? Help, eh!
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 09:17:26 GMT
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smacheso@wdi.disney.com (Steve Acheson) writes:

>Ok, I've tried to get any compaq to boot the 0.1 install disk.  
>They just won't!  The system will just reboot over an over, never
>displaying the 386bsd banner etc.  I downloaded the kcfloppy-genisa.fs
>kernel and that would boot up to the point of copy the kernel to your
>hard disk, then poof, reboot.

>Any ideas here?

Well, I've got the latest NetBSD running on my Compaq 3/25 laptop.  It's
running SLIP and X.  I'd suggest trying NetBSD 0.8 instead of the old
386BSD.

Later,
George

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