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From: cheng@ee.rochester.edu (Bruce Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Failed to install Bell Tech (now Intel) SysVR3.0 HELP!
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.162411.26795@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 90 16:24:11 GMT
Reply-To: cheng@ee.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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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@ee.rochester.edu
    rochester!ur-valhalla!cheng