Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:48:17 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960828094627.606A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199608280603.CAA06325@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca wrote: > In Email, Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Mohammad K Islam wrote: > > > > Urk. The boot floppy worked? Usually Win95 will interfere with rawrite > > and screw up the whole thing. > > In the past six or so months I believe I've seen the word on Win95 and > rawrite go from `I think Win95 interferes with rawrite. I think you have > to boot to DOS-mode', to `I know Win95 interferes with rawrite. You > should boot to DOS-mode', to `You should find an old copy of DOS and not > use Win95', to `You must find an old copy of DOS to use, Win95 will not > work, not even in DOS-mode'. > > Somewhere there, it directly contradicts my own experience. I know > rawrite will work from DOS-mode. > > Anyways, just now, I figured it would be worth testing it without even > running DOS-mode... I grabbed rawrite from 2.1.5, and the 2.1.5 floppy > image. Surprise surprise. It worked wonderfully. > > FWIW, I have what I consider to be a pretty unadulterated (no pun > intended...really! ;) Win95 setup. > > > Urk, eh? I had the same experience with 2.1.0 boot floppies (more than once). rawrite worked just fine in a win95 window (no DOS mode or anything). However, installing BootEasy didn't work from Win95 even in DOS mode. I had to dig for my old DOS disks for that to work. > > > > -- > -- > tIM...HOEk > The opinions expressed above are mine, > and if my employer shares them, > that's his hard luck. > Nadav
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