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From: "Bill R. Fink" <wrf1@cec.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Install netBSD 1.0 help
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 16:23:59 -0500
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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I need help. I have posted this message in the past and have not had
any successful responses. Flame me if I am just ignorant.
I have...
ZEOS Pantera Pentium 75
16 MB RAM
1.08 GB Seagate IDE Drive
Diamond Stealth 64 2MB vram
BIOS n/k as I am at work and my pc is at home.
I want to install netBSD 1.0 on my machine and have it reside on its
own 300MB partition, concurrent with 700MB DOS partition.
The cmos config is reporting different values than what pfdisk is
reporting. My Disk configuration is as follows:
CMOS PFDISK
------- -------
Cylinders 2099 523
Heads 16 64
Tracks 63 63
note: NetBSD install is reporting the cmos values too.
I have tried everything, netBSd at the start of the disk, at the end of
the disk, using the cmos values, using the pfdisk values .. I keep
getting the same error:
wd0: wdcontrol: geometry failed: status 0 error 0
Here are the nswers to the setup questions that I have used...
Disk Type: IDE
Disk: wd0
Cylinders: 523 (and have used 2099)
Heads: 64 (and have used 16)
Tracks: 63
Measurements Cylinders (and have used tracks)
NetBDS size: 111 (and have used 444)
Offset 411 (i even tried 0)
Kernel 10
Swap 16
data 85
mount point /usr
Questions:
What am I doing wrong?
What is the wdcontrol error?
Does anyone have a ZEOS Pantere 75 running DOS and netBSD 1.0?
Should I give up computers and take on politics?
note: I have to run DOS too because I use my computer for work.
ANY help will be GREATLY appreciated!!!
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