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["Gurpal S. Bhachu" <g AT gurpal.co.uk>]

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.
> > 
> 
>