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Michael, I've tried the whole disk, and much more it just doesn't work! As the documentation suggests the hardware or BIOS I use will not work!

I am using Gateway 2000, which reports :
       {{ Gateway 2000 Award BIOS version 4.26a }} on initial screen,
             but after it checks the CMOS and EISA when it accesses the disk it reports:
       {{ Adaptec AHA-1740 BIOS v1.34 }}
            however, CMOS config displays the following BIOS info:
       {{
            486 EISA BIOS 1541e001
            Award Modular BIOS v4.26; (Flash EPROM 80486DX)
        }}

The motherboard is:  {{ Gateway 2000 486/33 EISA }}.

I should contact Gateway for details about upgrading, but you know today's e-services mean time and $$$, none of which I have at this point for
this project. A HW re-seller told me I should download the BIOS upgrade from the net, which I am afraid will take too long to do with no
guaranties that this will get me out of troubles, most likely spawn a host of parallel activities on the outdated DOS / MS related issues I have
hard time digesting anyway. I am a Unix-guy and I try to stay away from the MS, IBM and BIOS crap, as much as I can.

In the past three years I was forced to work with prepackaged (4/5)86 and Cyrix HW you can buy in a grocery store, and I've learned my lesson.
It is not worth submitting to the abuse of today's MS/VARs. If  I do not find a quick solution for my EISA/AHA I'll use it with OS2 for
crossware-testing purposes, and build my own HW that best suits NetBSD platform. I should have done this long time ago. Hadn't I been helping my
wife with the groceries so much, I would be in much better shape today, but then on the other side I wouldn't have learned about "nicely
packaged" money sucking strategies and solutions of today's E-industries.



Michael C. Richardson wrote:

>   WRT: 1Gb of 2... Just install NetBSD on the whole disk. Make sure
> that the root is within the first 1Gb.
>   You haven't said what kind of motherboard you have. You either
> call your vendor, or you are SOL.



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