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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help a FreeBSD ignoramus...
Date: 1 Feb 1997 18:11:28 GMT
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markb@no.such.domain (Mark Blackman) wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ umm!
> Tyler Schutjer (tschutj@xmission.com) wrote:
> : I have the Walnut Creek CD, and have tried to execute the install.bat
> : from Windows, but I get the message, "sorry, can't allocate enough
> : memory." This is with 32MB of RAM, for crying out loud! So I try to run
> : the batch from DOS, but I get the message, "can't switch to protected
> : mode."
> Mebbe EMS driver (emm386.exe) is getting in the way of the install
> program. pure speculation. Try booting up without any EMS.
(Looks so.)
> : So I try the boot floppy, which works, until I get to the point where I
> : tell it that I want to install from a CD, and then I get some message
> : telling me that it can't find my CD-ROM drive, which I know is there,
> : cause Windows can see it.
> : ARRRGH!
Your drive is too incompatible with standards (i bet it doesn't run in
windows without a vendor-provided driver, does it?), and your FreeBSD
version is too old to cope with this. Newer FreeBSD's (2.2-something)
are better in that they tolerate drives that don't adher to the
standard.
All this assumes it's an ATAPI drive, of course. There are much fewer
SCSI drives around that break with the standard than there are ATAPI.
That's the price of their crappy^H^H^H^H^Hcheapness.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)