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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installation failure Date: 1 Jul 1994 14:20:28 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2v18nc$17b@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <Cs8DoG.L3@megatest.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <Cs8DoG.L3@megatest.com>, Dave Albrecht <albrecht@megatest.com> wrote: >I have an older 386SX20 (with the FPU chip) 8M/170M notebook that was retired >when the hinge blew up and replaced with a Compaq Aero 33C. Considerable >amounts of congo engineering later it is now returned to service so I decided to >put one of the free unixes on it. First choice was FreeBSD. I have the FreeBSD 1.1 >CDROM so I proceeded to create boot disks from it. No go. The notebook would >give a read error when attempting to boot from the floppy. The same disks in a >desktop work fine. If you make the disks, they will boot w/out error on the desktop box but NOT the portable? > After several attempts, I turned around and installed the Summer '94 >Yggdrasil Linux release writing to the same floppies and had no problems >whatsoever. Umm, Yggdrasil comes with floppies already. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.