Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:45:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> Cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960828184448.233N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960828094627.606A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > 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. This is understandable. Win95 write-protects the boot sector to protect from viruses. It considers Booteasy a virus, so it won't let it write to it. Even DOS-mode has this restriction. 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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