Re: Combining boot floppies

2006-06-12 Thread Michael White
On Friday 09 June 2006 00:57, you wrote: Nick, I appreciate the divine :) intervention. My comments/investigation is below, but in summary, I had set the BIOS to use CardBUS rather than PCIC. I did this originally because when attempting to install FreeBSD 6.1, it would hang unless I put

Re: Combining boot floppies

2006-06-09 Thread Michael White
Nick, I appreciate the divine :) intervention. My comments/investigation is below, but in summary, I had set the BIOS to use CardBUS rather than PCIC. I did this originally because when attempting to install FreeBSD 6.1, it would hang unless I put the PCMCIA slot into CardBUS mode. Boy is

Combining boot floppies

2006-06-08 Thread Michael White
Hi all, I'm attempting my first install of OpenBSD (version 3.9) on an HP Omnibook 800CT (Pentium 166, 80 MB RAM, 4.3 GB HD, 3COM 3CXEM556 Carbus Ethernet card), coming over from RH9.0. One peculiarity of the 800CTs is that the SCSI CDROM is not bootable, so I'm down to booting with floppies.

Re: Combining boot floppies

2006-06-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:08:04AM -0500, Michael White wrote: Hi all, I'm attempting my first install of OpenBSD (version 3.9) on an HP Omnibook 800CT (Pentium 166, 80 MB RAM, 4.3 GB HD, 3COM 3CXEM556 Carbus Ethernet card), coming over from RH9.0. One peculiarity of the 800CTs is that

Re: Combining boot floppies

2006-06-08 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:36:14PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:08:04AM -0500, Michael White wrote: Hi all, I'm attempting my first install of OpenBSD (version 3.9) on an HP Omnibook 800CT (Pentium 166, 80 MB RAM, 4.3 GB HD, 3COM 3CXEM556 Carbus Ethernet

Re: Combining boot floppies

2006-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
When I saw your note, I figured Something Ain't Right here. I wasn't the only one. Theo noticed. I'm on a mission from Theo. Michael White wrote: Hi all, I'm attempting my first install of OpenBSD (version 3.9) on an HP Omnibook 800CT (Pentium 166, 80 MB RAM, 4.3 GB HD, 3COM 3CXEM556