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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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