From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 07:59:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA22045 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 07:59:24 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA22039 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 07:59:22 -0700 Received: by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.15) via UUCP id AA28805 ; Mon, 24 Jul 95 10:59:20 -0400 Received: (from jan@localhost) by bagend.atl.ga.us (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA03086; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 10:41:19 -0400 From: Jan Isley Message-Id: <199507241441.KAA03086@bagend.atl.ga.us> Subject: Re: install problem (fwd) To: gs02tjr@panther.Gsu.EDU (TRobison) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 10:41:19 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "TRobison" at Jul 24, 95 01:29:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 759 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Either create a boot floppy and install from it, or run memmaker to free up that memory. I don't know what the cutoff is for the memory, but it only takes just a little bit dos memory diddling to make the boot fail. TRobison wrote: > I've just gotten my hands on a copy of FreeBSD 2.0.5 on CD-Rom from > Walnut Creek, and I'm having problems with the install program. My > operating system is DOS/Windows and I'm attempting to load BSD onto my #2 > hard drive (the one that doesn't have the OS on it) The program stops > almost immediately with the error message" EMM386 Unrecoverable previleged > error #00". I don't have any applications that use expanded memory > however some are loaded into upper memory. Any suggestions?--Thanks in > advance.