On Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:58:39 -0500 (EST)  der Mouse wrote:

> I wasn't about to use a zillion floppies to install, so what I did was
> I extracted the kernel from the kcoth floppy's filesystem on another
> machine, searched for the byte sequence 80 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 0d 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff (ie, the locator data for
> ed0) and noted the offset in the kernel at which it occurred (there was
> only one occurrence).  Then I used dd to pick off the pieces before and
> after the 09 byte and typed in a 03 byte (by typing ^V^C to cat), then
> reassembled the kernel by catting the resulting pieces together.  This
> made it recognize the network card on boot.  With this, I could ftp
> over the binary sets and install.  Here is a copy of /kern/msgbuf I
> saved (leading NULs removed):

Whilst not helping with your problem at all, nvi (our vi) is a wonderful
tool for editing binary files...

Simon
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