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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!zygot!dlb!megatest!albrecht From: albrecht@megatest.com (Dave Albrecht) Subject: Installation failure Message-ID: <Cs8DoG.L3@megatest.com> Organization: Megatest Corporation Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 22:21:03 GMT Lines: 16 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. After several attempts, I turned around and installed the Summer '94 Yggdrasil Linux release writing to the same floppies and had no problems whatsoever. Dataworld 386NB (386SX20 with IIT 387SX25) CompUSA sold the same notebook under their nameplate for a while. 8M RAM 170M Toshiba Drive. David Albrecht