Now I have found bootdisk (.../buzz-updates/disks-i386/special- kernels/boot/boot1440_2.0.5-1.bin) from wich I can boot. That's good, but now new problems has raised. After ``booting/rooting'' I tried to install the basedisks. While doing that the installation process sometimes stops telling that one of the basedisks (it's random witch one) is bad, but they are not, they are new and I have checked them with more disk utilities. Mustly I can read all the disks correctly, but when time comes to extracting the files new problems shows up. Each time when extracting the files each time I most likely get a new error. Typical I get a message somthing like:
general protection : 0000 CPU : 0 EIP : 0010:[<00118be4>] EFLAGS : 00010206 . . . several register, stack, ... dumps . . . Segmentation fault One time I was actually lucky installing the basesystem. But (again) then a new problem showed up. I copied some *.gz files to my computer and then tried gzip's integrity test (on the file ) gzip -tv filename.gz (file on the computer) and sometimes I am told that the same file is OK and sometimes not (more or less random). But what is much worse is that I often get one of the ``Ooops'' and dumps like a I have just mentioned. What I am telling is that something acts unstable and that's what I would like to ask some of the experts out there about. Is it - Because of some bugs in the rather new kernel version or some of the modules (aic7xxx or some other), or is it - Because of my hardware (jumper settings, BIOS settings, etc) or whatever one can imagine. Is there som thing special one should be aware of installing on a PC machine with an adaptec 2842 host adapter. I am ready to give more details about my everything. I can tell that DOS (5.0 or 6.2) is running fine on my machine, but on the other side a real mode system as DOS does not require much of the host adapter. Niels Bo Johansen
