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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!nickel.ucs.indiana.edu!mikes From: mikes@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (michael squires) Subject: FreeBSD and an old ESDI disk Message-ID: <CJHJ7u.9z0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: nickel.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 21:47:54 GMT Lines: 14 I have 386 BSD at the 0.1 patchlevel running with an old ESDI disk with numerous badspots which I have locked out using bad144 sector remapping. Has anyone installed FreeBSD onto such a system, and are there any pointers? I have FreeBSD running on another system (SCSI) and know about the 386 BSD to FreeBSD upgrade script. The disk is old, but it's 660MB and works reliably once the badspots are locked out. -- Michael L. Squires, Ph.D Manager of Instructional Computing, Freshman Office, Chemistry Department, IU Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-0852 (o) 81-333-6564 (h) mikes@indiana.edu, mikes@ucs.indiana.edu, or mikes@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu