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- From: okamoto@chigaku.souka.osakafu-u.ac.jp (Kenji Okamoto)
- Newsgroups: fj.os.386bsd
- Subject: Re: Q: COMPAQ, SCSI HD, and 386bsd
- Summary: You may need to get new dist.fs for Compaq...
- Message-ID: <8255@earth.chigaku.souka.osakafu-u.ac.jp>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 03:30:19 GMT
- References: <SUGA.92Dec15014545@kaitoh.yaskawa.co.jp> <696@cslab.kecl.ntt.jp>
- Distribution: fj
- Organization: Univ of Osaka Prefecture, Sakai
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- In article <696@cslab.kecl.ntt.jp>, wen@cslab.kecl.ntt.jp (Wu Wen) writes:
- > Dear everyone,
- >
- > Sorry to use the fj group, I just can't find any other 386bsd newsgroup
- > in my site. If you can help please send me a message in English, I haven't
- > been able to read Japanese well yet.
-
- Furthermore, it may not be the problem for fj.life.in-japan :-)
-
- > I am trying to install 386bsd in my Compaq LTE Lite/25 with 4MB memory
- > and 120MB HD. I have a dos primary partition, which uses 30 MB, I intend
- > to use the rest for 386bsd. I also have a desktop expension which i intend
- > to install another bigger HD in the future.
-
- You make partition by using DOS/5's fdisk?
-
- > up, after the memory test, the floppy drive's light appears, and the
- > screen will blink(as if the alt+crt+del keys are depressed). then everything
- > start all over again, memory test and it goes on like this.
-
- This means the boot sector of the floppy cannot be read, isn't it?
- If so, you may need the new version of dist.fs for Compaq from, say
- MIT's ftp server.
-
- I hope this may help you.
-
- kenji
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