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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: install problems Message-ID: <1992Aug26.035311.25677@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <28346.9208252030@thor.cf.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:53:11 GMT Lines: 40 spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes: : I've been out of things for the last couple of months with first : illness, then a holiday then a departmental move so after finally : getting my machines on the net I thought I'd update my 0.0 to 0.1. : : I get the dist.fs onto a floppy and it boots fine, recognises all my : devices and everything looks good until I type install. Bingo - Floating : point exception. : : At this point there's not a lot I can do since there's no source for : install. I'll spend the rest of this night loading the 0.0 way using the : fixit.fs disk but I thought I'd better report my problem. : : My machine is a noname with : : 25Mhz OCTEK Hippo-486 motherboard : ACE IDE-I/O card : ST1144A IDE disk : AMI Bios : 4M memory : Trident 1M 8900 video card : : It's going to be difficult to track down this problem since I'm not : going to use install again so does anyone have any ideas?? : : If there's a difference with my motherboard then I'm going to get these : exceptions again so I'd like to find out what's causing them. I had the same problems with C&T chipset motherboard with an 80387DX co-processor. My solution is just to take out the math co-processor. There is a patch for npx.c posted a while ago. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet