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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Subject: Re: Can I boot from 3.5" 1.44 MB disks?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.021827.25515@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:18:27 GMT
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- Christoph Kukulies (kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:
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- : I tried - to no avail - to produce a booatble 3.5" floppy
- : because one of the next system I will feed with 386bsd only has 3.5" drives.
- : Also I wanted to build a disk a la fixit.fs containing necessary
- : programs to bootstrap the rest of the system from a running node via
- : rrestore (if anyone has a better idea how to automate and speedup
- : remote installation of 386bsd in a network his/her ideas would be heartly welcome)
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- : Anyway - the essential question: Why does my 3.5" disk not boot? I make a disklabel and newfs on it and put a kernel and some stuff to live on it,
- : but I would at least expect, that the bootstrap is entered - I tried with
- : both versions of fdboot (the original and Julians)
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- I was able to boot using 3.5" disk that contains an image of the 1.2Mbyte
- dist.fs of the 386bsd 0.0 .
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- I've not tried the 0.1 version yet but I see no problem.
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- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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