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From: perv@flash.emf.mcgill.ca (Irwin Roger Gibson)
Subject: Making/altering distribution diskette
Message-ID: <1992Jul27.173732.6859@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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Organization: Engineering Microcomputing Facility
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 17:37:32 GMT
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Could anyone explain how to go about altering/making a new
distribution diskette for 386BSD. I am having some difficulty
in booting. My computer hangs immediately after reading the dist.fs
floppy. The Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights blink twice,
and then the diskette is read for 20 seconds, and all activity
ceases with the drive light on.
I tried the latest bootables on agate.berkeley.edu, but to no
avail. Even the debug version showed absolutely nothing on the
screen, and the computer also hanged.
What I would like is a brief discription on how to go about changing
the boot disk myself.
Is enough code to do it contained in the bin01 distribution?
Can it be done (I assume it can) from dos with an assembler and
C compiler?
Whatever help I can get concerning this would be appreciated. Thank
you.
Irwin Gibson
perv@flash.emf.mcgill.ca
perv@emf.lan.mcgill.ca