Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:15:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Emmanuel Chang <zhiyin@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD_2.1.5_on_laptop? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970225111259.5297I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <9702251209.aa15468@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Emmanuel Chang wrote: > I intend to install the FreeBSD 2.1.5 release but am experiencing > difficulties in actually getting the fbsdboot.exe to run at all on my > computer.It is a laptop computer and unfortunately can only have either > the CDROM or floppy disk module installed at any one time.I tried to run > the install.bat. First the computer is turneed on then I see windows > startup menu.I chose to load DOS ver 6.22 (I have modified the > config.sys and autoexec.exe for this version of dos so that no memory > manager is loaded).Only cdrom device driver is loaded. I run from the > cdrom's directory install.bat. Then the following appeared. These are tricky. I recommend trying to install by placing the files on your DOS partition first. The INSTALL.TXT file contains instructions on how to do this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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