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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.05R: failure to get fd parameters correctly
To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 11:02:49 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199506181743.TAA03536@gvr.win.tue.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Jun 18, 95 07:43:47 pm
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> 
> I tried to install 2.05R on a CSSI only system with a 2GB Quantum
> EMPIRE_2100S (Btw: dont try this at hoime..that disk sucks)

What is wrong with the Quantum Empire 2100S?  I use to have one and
loved it, and I know lots of folks who have them and have had no
problem with them.  Please don't slam the product without stating
a reason it is bad, you hurt some of your fellow hackers when you
do this as next time I go to sell someone an Empire 2100 who has
read your post I have to dispell what was said :-(.  If it has some
facts to it makes it easier for me to counter or confirm :-).

> Anyway: after installing all of it, it failed to boot from the
> fixed disk with a missing operating system.
> So I tried to reinstall it but now I chang4ed the geomtery to 
> what 2.0R reported when booting. This just failed. Every key I touched
> I got this popu menu shouting that I entered the wrong geometry :-(
> I `solved' the problem by adding a dos partition of 1 meg, but this
> is bad. I dont want DOS. And I dont understand why I caanot use the geometry
> reported by 2.0R when booting for the 2.05R installs...
> 
> -Guido
> 


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