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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
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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