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#! rnews 1565 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!neptune.gan.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-12.sprintlink.net!worldlinx.com!news1.sympatico.ca!news From: Stephane Lajeunesse <slajeunesse@sympatico.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't install on 386 SX 16mhz Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:52:57 -0400 Organization: Sympatico Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3244B819.4E450413@sympatico.ca> References: <324360F5.CA09605@sympatico.ca> <01bba814$ee70c200$e916abc7@pcrawlings.jlsc.wpafb.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp895.qc.sympatico.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i586) The Rawlings wrote: > > when you start booting and you get the "boot:" prompt, type in a "-c". > When you get to the next prompt, type in visual and you will be taken into > a utility for setting up your kernel specific to your hardware. go to the > device for wdc0 and change it's settings to match those you pulled up in > msd. > > Hope this helps. Hi, I tried this but it didn't work. What I find weird is that I got NetBSD and IT detected it correctly (actually installed it on the system). I noticed that the boot-up is quite similar. Anyways, if anybody has any other ideas on this one, I would like to know. Thanks, Stephane Lajeunesse.