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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 20:37:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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Subject: Re: dammit! :)  (fwd)
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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> > sorry for this, but that system i was talking about in the previous
> > message is giving me a heck of a hard time.  The BIOS in it doesn't
> > support large harddrives and i have a 4.3 gig IDE in it.

That's still OK, as long as the geometry is ok.

> > after rebooting after the install (i didn't do the untar yet of the
> > backup) the machine will not boot.

Could you be more specific?

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