Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:11:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> Subject: Re: Final request for help with release. (DPT boot floppy) Message-ID: <XFMail.970821231149.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <8233.872210627@time.cdrom.com>
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Hi "Jordan K. Hubbard"; On 22-Aug-97 you wrote: > > So I can build a working 1.2.1 kernel, and I can get it on the disk, > > but > > fixit won't work so I can copy the kernel off the floppy to the drive. > > Or ftp it, or any other way that I can think of. > > And I assume that you've already contemplated physically moving the > drive to another machine for the xfer? Not a good idea, unless the othe machine is a DPT based one. There are some differences between DPT initialized disks and others. Something to do with the RAID information. I already bitched DPT about it in 1985-1986 and got nowhere. You are welcome to try again :-) Simon
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