From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton) Subject: Re: Help - SLS install problems. Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 11:59:31 +0000
In article <1992Dec1.053425.1389@cs.hope.edu> bomers@cs.hope.edu (Jason Bomers) writes:
>
> at this point, everytime it asks for another disk and put it in and
> press enter I get the following on the screen:
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. alpha. 8, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=000]
> [me=0xf0,cs=1,#f=2,fs=1,fl=9,ds=19,de=224,data=33,se=2880,ts=0]
> No bmap support
>
>
> is this normal?
>
> anyway, I assumed that this was okay and continued with the install.
> Lastly, I inserted a freshly formatted disk and make the boot disk as
> it said to do. Everything looked fine to me. When I try to reboot the
> the machine, it goes through the normal boot/loading info then prints
>
> No bmap support
>
> on the screen and hangs. No disk access or anything, it just sits there.
> I can't figure this out and would appreciate any help anyone may have.
>
> thanks in advance,
> -jason
>
The first bit *is* normal, but the second bit....errr, I've never seen that before.
Cheers,
- Alan.
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