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From: tom@izf.tno.nl (Tom Vijlbrief)
Subject: 0.1 up on my compaq (The clean way)
Message-ID: <1992Sep22.074600.25816@izf.tno.nl>
Organization: TNO Institute for Perception
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 07:46:00 GMT
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I have patched my bootblock as akihiro HIGASI <higasi@mlab.nttdocomo.co.jp>
suggested:

>00E4: E4     -> EB
>00E5: 84     -> 00
>
>00F5: E4     -> EB
>00F6: 84     -> 00
>
>I cut 7.5kb (fdbootblk) from dist.fs, rewrite them using "debug" and
>over write it using rawrite.

Now the installation floppy boots smoothly.

The only problem I'm having is that 386bSD reports that it is
low on memory (I have only a 2Mb Compaq) and that it is running in
degraded mode.

The install scripts seems to hang after a while for this reason.

'exec install' instead of 'install' gave me just enough memory
and a bootable image on my harddisk, which I'm now exploring :-)

Tom