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- From: doc@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Smith)
- Subject: Re: Installing NT
- Message-ID: <doc.712251748@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Jul27.091312.1@vthvax.tamu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:42:28 GMT
- Lines: 55
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- joel@vthvax.tamu.edu writes:
-
- >I'm having trouble installing WNT. One problem is that I have to let
- >OS/2 remain on a bootable partition. I know this is unsupported but
- >I have no choice. I also only have 8 meg of ram. Will NT install with
- >only 8 meg of ram? Here's what i did:
-
- Yes I have it installed with only 8 megs of ram. According to my
- documentation, OS/2 2.0 isnt supported at all by the flexboot option and
- if you try to use it the system will fail to boot, It says it works for
- OS/2 1.x but not 2.0 I hope they solve this in the future.
-
- I installed with the Dos2nt and it worked great.
-
- L8er,
- Jeff
- >- I partitioned the disk with a 1 meg primary boot partition, a primary 135 meg
- > os/2 partition, and 2 135 meg extended dos partitions.
-
- >- Installed os/2 with it's (flexboot) program.
-
- >- Rebooted. Selected dos from os/2's bootloader.
-
- >- Used dos2nt to install NT on C drive and edited the ini files.
-
- >- Rebooted. Selected dos from os/2's boot manager, which brought
- > up NT's boot manager. Selected NT...
-
- >Windows NT
- >Portable Bootloader
- >(c) Microsoft
-
- >Warning! - Incorrect EISA memory configuration info.
- >Windows NT will use the ISA memory configuration information.
-
- >Loading...
-
- >MS Windows NT
- >MnInit: 8192 Kb Available memory
- >*** Fatal system error: 0x00000069
- >*** Phase 1 i/o init failed.
- >(hang)
-
- >I seems to me like os/2 and it's bootloader is not my problem. Is it my
- >memory or is it really the EISA configuration? Since dos and os/2 work
- >correctly, I would think the EISA configuration sould work under NT.
-
- >I know this is a bit of a kludge but could someone point out any invalid
- >assumptions i have made?
-
- >Joel
- Romana: "I thought you said we were coming here for May week?"
- Doctor: "I did, May week's in June."
- **Shada and The Five Doctors**
- Jeffrey Smith --KD4AYH-- doc@catt.ncsu.edu
-