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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Michael Lay <n5ptn@bga.com>
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Subject: Re: IDE Problem?
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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Michael Lay wrote:

> Is the note about IDE support being alpha quality apply only to the CDROM's
> or all IDE devices?  I have obtained the Walnut Creek 2.1.5 August 1996
> CDROM set and am having problems trying to install it.  I am on an all IDE
> system though.  System is:

CDROMs only, although that code has been around for three releases now.
:)  

>       ??? Motherboard w/PCI and VLB  (UMC I think, but it doesn't say anywhere!)
>         32MEG Ram
>         Conner 400Meg HD
>         Seagate ST-1090A  HD (75Meg)
>         NEC (Oak) IDE CD-ROM
>         SMC Ultra/16 Ethernet combo card
>         1.44M diskette
>         1.2M  diskette
>         SVGA Card w/1Meg Ram
> 
> I start the install by booting from a boot floppy.  I get through the
> config utility to the point where it starts to actually do work.  It
> appears to make it through the newfs commands and fails when it goes to
> write the kernal to /STAND.  Exact symptom varies a little, but centers
> around a message indicating that there is no kernal to write to the
> disk. 

Check the debug console on ALT-F2 for a detailed explanation of the
problem.

> At first I thought it was just because the CD-ROM is IDE.  Then I
> went back and made a DOS partition and tried to install from that.  This
> way, I get the same basic problem.  Interestingly, I found different
> failures depending on which IDE drive the DOS partition was on and where
> in relation to the BSD partition (On the Conner drive) the DOS partition
> was (before or after the BSD partition).  I am beginning to wonder if I
> missed an instruction to change CD's or if I just got a bad set of
> CD's??? 

Your bin distribution may be corrupted.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major