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Re: installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Sep 12 16:36:39 1997
To: Qian Z Wang <qzwang@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:28:00 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:36:27 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
At what point precisely did you get the floating point exception?
> I'm using a cyrix chip. Do you think that's got anything to do with
> it?
It sounds like a division by zero error, which sometimes happens if
your MBR is screwy somehow (it's still a bug, but bugs happen). So
it's probably not from having a Cyrix chip.>
