From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 11:15:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09518 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:15:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA09509 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:15:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA05373; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:15:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:15:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Emmanuel Chang cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD_2.1.5_on_laptop? In-Reply-To: <9702251209.aa15468@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> 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 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