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- From: MCROSBY@bsa3.kent.edu (Malcolm Crosby)
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: PATCHKIT 0.2 is ALMOST OUT
- Message-ID: <MCROSBY.91.727979723@bsa3.kent.edu>
- Summary: Testing
- Keywords: n
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:35:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.231126.18077@coe.montana.edu> osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
- >From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
- >Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: PATCHKIT 0.2 is ALMOST OUT
- >Summary: Testing
- >Keywords: n
- >Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:11:26 GMT
- >Okay, here's the situation.
- >
- >I am pretty sure I have most things whipped, but I would like people
- >who are having, or who have in the past have had troubles booting
- >386BSD 0.1 to try out my new installation kernel.
- >
- >Also, if you think that one of these patches will break your machine,
- >try getting this new bootable and trying it out. If I don't get
- >any large problems by the end of the weekend, I'm going to release
- >this version of the patchkit and then pass on the co-ordination
- >officially to the new guy.
- >
- >This bootable is a copy of the generic Tiny-386BSD bootable that is
- >archived everywhere, with all of the DOCS deleted for space, but the
- >kernel contains all of the boot and kernel patches in the next version
- >of the patchkit with exception to the WD ethernet driver patches.
- >
- >Hopefully this should fix most, if not all of the booting problems
- >people have reported.
- >
- >Short summary:
- >-------------
- >1) Aha 1542A is now supported
- >
- >2) Most MFM/IDE/ESDI disks should be recognized and should boot
- > properly. (There is still the IDE problems with drive translation,
- > unfortunately)
- >
- >3) Hang after copyright bug should hopefully be fixed. (I had one machine
- > here that it seemed to work on. All the rest didn't have any problems)
- >
- >4) Compaq/Gateway machines should be able to boot.
- >
- >5) Many new kernel patches for stability.
- >
- >6) Patchkit order re-vamping, to make installation easier, and to
- > place emphasis on REALLY important patches.
- >
- >7) Other little things, but overall I'm pretty pleased with it.
- >
- >There are a couple other things I would like to have done, but I kept
- >putting it off and putting it off, so I am finally going to get this out
- >of the door.
- >
- >The location of the bootable image (needs to be written to a 5.25" or
- >3.5" floppy using rawrite, dd, etc) is located at:
- >
- >agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/incoming/nate/dist.fs-patchkit-0.2
- >
- >The nate directory under incoming is readable, so if you don't
- >remember you should be able to see the file.
- >
- >PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - If you have problems, try this bootable
- >out. I have been running around campus trying it on different
- >machines here, but we only have Zenith's and DEC machines mostly,
- >which doesn't even come close to checking out all of the different
- >possibilities that exist.
- >
- >
- >Thanks alot!!
- >
- >Nate
- >--
- >osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | A hacker w/out a home.
- >work: (406) 994-5991 | Keeper of the Unofficial 386BSD Bug Report
- >home: (406) 586-0579 | Please send bugs and/or fixes you find.
-
-
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- Malcolm Crosby
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