[nycbug-talk] OpenBSD 3.5 install on IBM Thinkpad 360X

[Josh McCormack]

G. Rosamond wrote:
> 
> On May 22, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Josh McCormack wrote:
> 
>> Anyone have any experience installing any OS to an IBM Thinkpad 360X? 
>> It has no CD-ROM, and an external floppy. When I tried using the 
>> OpenBSD 3.5 laptop floppy boot disk I got this:
>>
>> Loading;
>> ERR R
>>
>> Josh
>>
> 
> Let me be more helpful Josh.
> 
> This happens while it's reading from the floppy?
> 
> 1.  make sure you're using a decent floppy.  I had a box of 50 compusa 
> floppies a while back, and none of them were good.
> 
> 2.  do a low level format of the floppy on a UNIX box.  This will reveal 
> the errors that won't show up during a Win32 format.
> 
> g
> 
> 


I did a format using a Knoppix disk, and it looked like it verified fine 
and the write was good. Here's a line by line of what I did once I 
downloaded the laptop floppy disk from OpenBSD's FTP site:

fdformat /dev/fd0
cd /ramdisk/home/knoppix
dd if=floppyC35.fs of=/dev/fd0 bs=32k

But I still got the same error, as it was trying to load the floppy.

Josh