Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:06:34 -0400 From: "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.mv.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.1 boot.flp Message-ID: <199704151806.OAA00324@snoopy.mv.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:59:03 MDT." <199704151759.LAA01269@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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|Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:59:03 -0600 (MDT) |Message-Id: <199704151759.LAA01269@rocky.mt.sri.com> |From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> |MIME-Version: 1.0 |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii |Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit |To: "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.mv.com> |Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, bugs@freebsd.org |Subject: Re: 2.2.1 boot.flp |In-Reply-To: <199704151754.NAA00289@snoopy.mv.com> |References: <199704151722.LAA01034@rocky.mt.sri.com> | <199704151754.NAA00289@snoopy.mv.com> |X-Mailer: VM 6.26 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid | |> Yes, but I tried again with only wdc0 and fdc0 enabled and |> with npx flags 1 and got into the menu. Yes! | |Cool. | |> So it shows disk geometry: 699/64/63 which is not what was |> printed during the boot although the 699*64 == 2796*16. |> Now I try to |> "G" to set the geometry to 2796/16/63 by typing into the |> dialog box |> |> 2797//16//63 |> |> which yields 2796/0/63 showing in the menu. |> |> Is this "normal" or do we expect G to work? | |You did the same thing I did. Don't 'escape' the slashes, but instead |just use a single slash between the fields. Unix weenies are too |knowlegable and escape the slashes. :) | | |Nate | Ok, thats got it thanks. Maybe someone should change the helpful hint to use double slashes? So it looking good for a 2.2.1 install, but I really want 2.1.6 (cause I have the disk). Booting the 2.1.6 floppy now using lessons learned yields ...... Success!!! It was formerly hanging when setting partition type, now does the good thing. I'm hopefull. This notebook could be really nice for $2400 if everything works. Thanks much for your help, Nate. Paul
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