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- From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386BSD] 386bsd, the universe and everything
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.114736@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 11:47:36 GMT
- Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk
- Reply-To: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen)
- Organization: British Telecom Research Labs
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- I'm not yet running a 386bsd system and have only recently got the
- distributions sets. I've written the new dist.fs.pk-0.2 filesystem
- to a floppy (from a Sun - dd if=dist.fs.pk-0.2 of=/dev/rfd0c bs=9k),
- in an attempt to test this I booted a portable (which happened to be
- close at the time [don't know the spec]) with the disk. It came up
- with no problem (better than most commercial releases!!!) I was just
- having a quick look round and I typed 'pwd' which obviously does not
- exist on the floppy, I got the 'cant exec /bin/pwd' (or something
- close) message. After this every directory appears empty!! Is this
- normal?
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- This may be a question that's been asked before but I can't find any
- references...
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- I'm looking at getting a SCSI card for my PC, the price of these varies
- quite dramatically from about 20 pounds for an ST01/02 up to about 180
- pounds for an Adaptec 154x, with the Future Domain ones in the middle.
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- I have read somewhere (I can't remember where) that the Seagate ST01/02
- cards ONLY work with DOS and ONLY support drives up to 100MB. Is this
- true? Do they have an external SCSI connector for CD-ROM etc...
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- What kind of SCSI card support is there for 386BSD now! - I have read
- the messages in the SCSI source directory and there are references to
- both the Seagate and Future Domain controllers, with a note that says
- something like there are just a bit more than a dream!! - is that up
- to date?
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- Another question i'm sure's been asked!!
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- I've currently got a IDE controller, i've also got a MFM controller
- and drive! - can I get these to co-exist!
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- And...
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- A while ago there were some mutterings about DOS emulation from within
- 386BSD, did anything come of this? Are there any implementations?
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- Thanks,
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- Lee Essen
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