Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csource!david
From: david@csource.oz.au (david nugent)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC 2.2 Installation Troubles
Keywords: ISC, installation, pipelining
Message-ID: <550@csource.oz.au>
Date: 4 Jul 90 14:22:42 GMT
References: <1990Jun22.052443.184@pilikia.pegasus.com> <26825@infotel.UUCP> <1990Jul1.125113.970@pilikia.pegasus.com> <1990Jul3.044925.4374@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Organization: Unique Computing Pty Ltd, Melb, Aust.
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>Today I spoke with an engineer with Transcomputer who has *solved*
>the mysterious ISC 2.2 install disk hang problem.  Evidently the
>new 2.2 release enables instruction pipelining in the 386 processor,
>something which ISC neglected to tell us poor souls.  Check your
>386 processor, just below the i386 logo should be the processor
>version.  If the chip is the SX211 version, you're in trouble
>because there is a bug in processor regarding instruction pipelining
 
 
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this just doesn't make any sense at all.

I had this dreaded problem, and after successfully installing 2.2 on
a different machine, I swapped the drive and controller back to the
original machine, where now 2.2 is running without ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL.
ZERO.  ZILCH.

If the _real_ problem is anything like what you describe, then it shouldn't
run at all on that machine, no?

david

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