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- From: vscarafi@eccdb1.pms.ford.com (Vincent F. Scarafino)
- Subject: Re: Installing NT
- Message-ID: <Bs5v9D.3p@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
- Originator: news@pms001
- Sender: usenet@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com (0000-Admin(0000))
- Organization: Ford Motor Co.
- References: <1992Jul27.091312.1@vthvax.tamu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:29:32 GMT
- Lines: 48
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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:
- >
- > - 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
- >
- I get the same EISA memory configuration error when I bring up NT. It doesn't
- cause me any problems. I have 12 meg of memory, though. Is your swap file
- at least 20 meg in size? That was documented as requirement for NT to come
- up.
-
- Vince
-