[plug] netBSD installation [OT]

[Russell Steicke]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:47:32PM +0800, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:
> At the risk of being off topic, I've decided to ask here, as I don't
> know of any BUGs (hehe) in perth, the netBSD forums are still very
> new, and #netbsd on freenode is idle-city.

I don't think that's a problem.  This list has been friendly to BSD
questions before, given that there's no local alternative.

However, there's no reason to restrict yourself geographically like
that.  Have you tried any bsd lists or irc channels from elsewhere?

> I've aquired an old pentium computer and want to give netBSD a try,
> 2.0 just recently came out so I made followed the instructions and
> made the series of two boot floppies (this PC won't boot from CD) but
> it always fails on the second floppy. I've tried a few diferent disks,
> and the md5sum always checks out, so I'm at a loss.

Are there any error messages there?  Knowing what they told you might
help us help you.




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Russell Steicke

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