--- Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net> wrote:
> I sent inquiries for help on installing NetBSD to my
> old computer, Cx486DX2-S
> at 66 MHz; all the kernels failed to make it through
> the boot.  More recently,
> I saw a message relating to Phoenix BIOS problems. 
> Is there any possibility of
> tweaking the NetBSD kernel to make it bootable?
> 
> BIOS is old, and whenever the year >= 2000, next
> boot is into year 2094, while
> day, month and time of day are not altered.  With
> DOS, the last line of my
> AUTOEXEC.BAT is
> DATE
> so I am always reminded to correct the date.
> 
> CD-ROM is Texel internal, 2x, with Trantor T130B
> SCSI, not bootable, meaning I
> need a kernel with support for this SCSI (NCR5380
> chip?).  Hard disk size is
> 1271 MB (IDE), where 1 MB = (10 ** 6) bytes, or 1212
> MB, where 1 MB =
> (2 ** 20) bytes.  Alternative to NetBSD is Linux,
> which would also require a
> tweaked kernel to be able to mount the CD-ROM.  I
> already have DR-DOS 7.03 on
> one partition of the hard disk, and don't think the
> hard disk is big enough to
> install both NetBSD and Linux.  I would settle for
> the one I can first get to
> read the CD-ROM, or neither NetBSD nor Linux if I
> can't get either of these to
> read the CD-ROM.  FreeDOS, maybe?

I bet if you searched hard enough, you could find a
bios update for that thing. That would probably be the
first place to start if you know it gives you
problems.

Andy

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