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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Subject: Re: Can NetBSD-0.9 and DOS get along? References: <dvdjnsCL011x.Juw@netcom.com> <2jk9s3$ke3@cleese.apana.org.au> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 12:52:59 GMT Message-ID: <CL7t4q.A0p@veda.is> Lines: 24 newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) writes: >In article <dvdjnsCL011x.Juw@netcom.com>, David Jones (dvdjns@netcom.com) wrote: > > OK, so I got a new 486DX33 system and I wanted to install a free UNIX. > > NetBSD looked fairly well regarded. So I tried to install it on a SCSI > > disl with a ~1990 1542B AHA 1542B controller. This drive was in addition > > to my 340 meg IDE drive on the local bus. Anyway, my problem is this: > > If the SCSI card is on the system I can't boot the kernel copy floppy. > > I would very much like to have NetBSD exist solely on the SCSI drive. >Unless you disable the FDC on the Adaptec card, you'll find that you won't >be able to boot from *any* floppy. >You can remove a jumper to disable it. Once you've done that, you shouldn't >have any more problems. > - mark Why so? I am using the floppy port on an aha-1542B and it works. I wouldn't have thought adding a DOS partition or localbus card made any difference. -- adam@veda.is