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

[G.Rosamond]

On May 22, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Josh McCormack wrote:

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> 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
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>
> 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
>

Michael's followup is accurate.

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g