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From: wrzwicky@ux7.cso.uiuc.edu (William Roger Zwicky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with NetBSD Amiga
Date: 9 Oct 1995 23:34:48 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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mal_wood@artemis.earth.monash.edu.au (Mal Woods Guest End 03-96) writes:

>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.

Which OS do you have?  The floppies worked fine until I got 3.1, and now this
happens.  You might try soft-kicking under 2.0 (tools are on AmiNet.)

-Bill


/ William R. Zwicky                      /
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/ wrzwicky@uiuc.edu                      /
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