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From: brettw@io.com (quantum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with NetBSD Amiga
Date: 8 Oct 1995 20:08:34 GMT
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Mal Woods Guest End 03-96 (mal_wood@artemis.earth.monash.edu.au) shouted from out of the ether:
> Just a quick message in the hope that someone can help me.

> I'm trying to load NetBSD on my Amiga.  I follow the instructions and get upto
> the root device message where I put in fd0 and press return.  I get the message

> 2 mice configured
> 10 views configured

> the floppy disk drive starts reading the disk and stays spinning until I
> reboot.  The only thing I can think of is that it may not like my SCSI
> controller, which is by no means standard.  I have tried the disk on a friends
> A3000 and it steps past this point in ten seconds or so.

> Any idea ?

What SCSI controller do you have?  Is it one of the supported ones listed
(I think) in the install README?

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