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- From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: dist.fs boot infinity-loop
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 07:22:14 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- Message-ID: <1eko36INN25l@menudo.uh.edu>
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- Keywords: boot loop
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- In article <BxxHtz.2sz@encore.com> idequesa@encore.com (Ivan Dequesada) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know the difference between BSD's dist.fs and
- >LINUX's dist.fs??
- >
- >It seems that some PCs (Including (but not limited to) Compaq
- >Systems and TI's) hang in an infinite loop when booting from
- >the dist.fs diskette (3 1/2", 1.44 Mbytes).
-
- I had a similar problem with fixit.fs. Someone hinted to me that
- it might be because of fixit.fs corruption. So, I freshly formatted
- a diskette, re-ftp'ed and re-download it. Then the problem was gone.
-
- Just a possibility.
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