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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!rommel From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) Subject: 386BSD on CD-ROM? Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem) Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 19:09:49 GMT Message-ID: <1992Aug11.190949.1496@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Lines: 25 I have tried the 386BSD 0.1 boot floppy on my machine and it seems to work fine. I have a 486/33 with 16MB and an Adaptec 1542B controller. It drives a DEC hard disk, a Tandberg Streamer and a NEC CD-ROM reader. Even from the boot floppy (TinyBSD) I was able to mount the CD-ROM drive and access an ISO-9660 CD-ROM in it. The 386BSD docs say that installation via CD-ROM is possible. Question: is 386BSD 0.1 really available on CD-ROM? If so, where and how much is the CD? Another question: how can I access the Tandberg Streamer? It is a model 4120 (SCSI-2, 1GB) and the doc's say 386BSD supports QIC-150 tapes. The streamer supports 150MB tapes too (it's the low end it can read and write). However, if I access /dev/ras4a as suggested (the streamer is target 4 on the controller), I get "Bad file descriptor". If I access /dev/as4d instead, the SCSI bus id flickers shortly and I get "Input/Output error". Any idea? If I got that working, I could make a 386BSD tape under OS/2 2.0 and install 386BSD from it. Kai Uwe Rommel /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */ DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams