Re: question of installl openBSD on an OLD laptop
- From: Mark South <mark.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:38:33 +0100
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:23:44 -0800, mftian wrote:
> For some reason I have to install openBSD on an old laptop(P166 with
> 32mb RAM). Luckily I got floppy disk drive and CD-ROM to start the
> laptop with. But that didn't work.
>
> I got an unofficial openBSD CD image(version 3.6) from internet and
> burn it. The cd image worked well with my AMD 2000+ computer. But when
> I start the laptop with it, nothing happened, the CD-ROM driver read
> for a while and stopped, and the boot process died there. The CD-ROM
> drive of my laptop works fine under Windows 98 on it.
If you have connectivity you don't need the CD image at all. I've
installed 3.7 and 3.8 on a ten-year old portable (P133) via wireless
starting with only a floppy.
> Then I tried the floppy disk, attempting to boot the laptop with floppy
> disk boot image downloaded from official ftp site(version 3.8, both
> floppy38.fs and floppy38C.fs). But it output "Loading..... \n ERROR"
> and stopped. The floppy drive works fine, too.
How did you make the floppy disk? You downloaded floppy38C.fs, you put a
floppy in the drive and ... then what?
My first guess at this stage is that the floppy is not what it should be.
> Is there any one could offer me some advice? Any help would be
> appreciated, I was really confused!
The thing is to stick with it until you achieve enlightenment.
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