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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5 install gremlins Date: 5 Jan 1996 06:27:02 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4cigbm$jf8@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4ci41l$33a@news1.mnsinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4ci41l$33a@news1.mnsinc.com>, w. a. gerrard <wgerrard@mnsinc.com> wrote: > I'm ttempting to install ver. 2.0.5 (from the Walnut Creek CD) on a >Pentium-133, 32 Meg, Adaptec AHA-2940 ver 1.21. The machine is already >running Windows NT Workstation 3.51 with no apparent problems. > Running "install.bat" from the CD (in NT's emulated DOS box) results >in a "not enough memory" message, when more than 630k is available. You will have to make your boot floppy on a different machine, I'm afraid. NT prevents rawrite from getting access to the floppy drive, even under a DOS box, and this causes that to fail. Needless to say, the install.bat's direct boot into FreeBSD is similarly disallowed. Basically, NT isn't a good platform to bootstrap FreeBSD from directly. I would recommend going to a stock DOS or Win95 box and running the `makeflp.bat' there. Then bring CD and floppy back to the NT box and install. Jordan