Failed to install Bell Tech (now Intel) SysVR3.0 HELP!
Bruce Cheng
cheng at ee.rochester.edu
Mon Jul 9 02:24:11 AEST 1990
I was attempting to install Bell Technologies' System V 3.0 unix on my
Gateway 2000 386/20MHZ machine.
I did a low level format of my hard disk (Microscience ESDI drive 110 Meg)
with software stored in the Ultrastore hard disk controller.
The disk is now fresh and new. (* I assume)
I put the boot floppy from the Bell Tech disk set and reboot the machine.
What I see is:
..........
:boot /unix
The floppy drive seems to do something but the hard disk does not move at
all. After a while the machine shutdown itself (well, the screen goes
blank) as the installation manual says.
I reset the machine but the machine does not come up with the second stage
of installation, as described in the manual.
So what I wonder now is:
1) my hard disk controller is not 100 percent IBM compatible.
It's an Ultrastor disk controller. The Bell tech manual says the disk
controller must be 100% "Western Digital command set" compatible.
2) I failed to leave the hard disk in the state that the boot disk can do
it's own formatting.
3) My machine is not 100% AT compatible. (But Gateway 2000 tech supoort
confirmed that for me.)
Any opinion and advices are welcome.
Thanks.
-Bruce
cheng at ee.rochester.edu
rochester!ur-valhalla!cheng
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