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

[Josh McCormack]

G. Rosamond wrote:

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> On May 22, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Josh McCormack wrote:
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>> G. Rosamond wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>> 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.
> 
> But then again, it's just the case for getting a subscription to OBSD.
> 
> Use the link on our nycbug.org homepage.
> 
> g
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> 
I can't boot off of a CD-ROM - no CD-ROM drive. So the subscription 
wouldn't do it for me, right?

I tried making 4 more floppies, including do the md5sum, per Sunny's 
suggestion. They matched up. Still had the same problem, so I think it 
must be something other than the floppies. I'll keep trying different 
things. Thanks for the help.

Josh