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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!world!cdi From: cdi@world.std.com (william f fiore) Subject: need help w/ mread of bindist Message-ID: <CxKs43.JxF@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 19:43:15 GMT Lines: 34 please respond w/ email... i am finally loading 386bsd 0.1......i know its old but i spent a bunch of time/money on collecting all the pieces. i booted the patched dist.fs from funet.fi and used install to put it on the hard drive. but now the mread program (loadfd script) dies with a cant initialize A: when i do a mread "a:*.*" . so i cant load the bin00.xx files!!! a FAQ on bugs said that a MAKEDEV should be done for fd0 and fd1 but i already have the raw rfd0a and block fd0a entries? and MAKEDEV is not loaded yet! so i am tempted to try a mknod fd0 major minor but i dont know the major/minor numbers...!!! so it is sort of up but i still have the bin etc src kits to load and tehn all the patches....i know free/net bsd is better but i wanna do this. latr$ . :wq -- latr$ William F. Fiore Jr. ($BILFJR) ONLINE SINCE '79(sm) Compute Data Inc RR181B Douglas MA 01516 USA +1 508 476 3663(voice/fax)