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  • From: "Gurpal S. Bhachu" <g AT gurpal.co.uk>
  • To: "'Sindi Keesan'" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>, <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [BL] Divide overflow?
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:49:58 -0000

Sindi,
I don't believe it! I have exactly THE SAME cpu. I have a Cyrix 685L
PR200+ which I recently acquired from a scrap heap!
G.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sindi Keesan [mailto:keesan AT iamjlamb.com]
> Sent: 29 January 2004 13:53
> To: g AT gurpal.co.uk; baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [BL] Divide overflow?
>
>
> I checked this again on my first of three computers where the
> 2-floppy
> method is not working.
>
> This one has a Cyrix cpu - 6x86L-PR200+.
>
> I made both disks okay (except that it tells me I have copied
> 1 file(s) to
> disk 1 three times and I end up with 10 files of which 2 are
> hidden). I Try to boot from the set and it copies disk 1 and
> copies disk2 and I see
> while copying disk2:
>
> C:Part1
> A:Parts - I see it copying, the floppy drive light is on, it
> makes the
> usual copying noises, and suddenly tells me:
>
> Divide overflow
> C>
>
> This machine (Cyrix) works fine with BL2 ramdisk and DOS but
> crashes if
> you try to run Opera under Win98 (and would not install Win98 without
> crashing if I put in the P166cpu and ran it at full speed -
> it installed
> at 150MHz but still crashed Opera)..
>
> I get the same thing on my Intel Pentium I 166MHz with the
> 'F0 0F bug' sometimes, but usually it won't even make the
> second disk. This machine has been working perfectly with
> BL2 and DOS. It has some other bug
> (popad?) for which linux has found a workaround.
>
> AMD K6500MHz. (This machine had a reset problem due to
> timing that was fixed with hdparam. Works fine with Win98
> and DOS). Won't load Part2.
> I see
> C:PART1
> then floppy drive light flashes briefly and then nothing else happens.
>
> I checked and all the files are on both disks in all cases.
>
> I tried several 100% good reformatted disks (format /u).
>
> At one point before reformatting I discovered the second disk was no
> longer 1.4M but 1.2M (no free space, just that one big file). Odd.
>
>
> The first computer (did not try the others) boots fine from
> the 2-floppy
> set made on my old 486 BL2.0. I will try making the 2 disks
> for BL2.1 on
> the 486 laptop. Maybe this method is hardware dependent
> somehow? On the
>
> Gurpal, thanks for confirming my problem - see the recent thread
> Linux cannot read floppy disks. What cpu is in your computer?
>
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Gurpal S. Bhachu wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I created the distro using the 2 floppy method. I booted
> from disk 1,
> > all goes well. I put in disk 2 and towards the end I get a "Divide
> > Overflow" error and the C> prompt.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers
> > G.
> >
>
>





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