From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 23:49:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA06136 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 23:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA06130 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 23:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA00642; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:48:17 +0200 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:48:17 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation!! In-Reply-To: <199608280603.CAA06325@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca wrote: > In Email, Doug White 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