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From: Will Rose cwr@crash.cts.com
Subject: installation problems
Date: Sat,  4 Nov 1995 04:24:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19951104092417.HU5Ylie_ZWH5JAd-29RiRRKKj62WLe1-imVp665x7xU@z> (raw)

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.EDU) wrote:

: hi,

: on File System Installation, prep fails with "24 not enough room for boot" 

: i've got 37Mb free on C:, and 280+Mb on an unformatted partition 

: the machine is a Dell P60, Viewsonic 17" SVGA, 3Com ethernet, MS-DOG 6.2,
: completely clean.  i just fdisked and installed DOG.

: DOG made me format the upper half of the disk, but i went back and deleted
: the logical drive in a weak attempt to get prep by this problem.

If this is a CDROM install, then you need around 2MB free on the first
(MSDOS) partition, no other partitions on the disk, and around 530 MB
of free disk space.  Otherwise you have to install by hand.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com







             reply	other threads:[~1995-11-04  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-11-04  9:24 Will [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-07-13  0:01 Installation problems Jack
1996-07-12 16:41 Berry
1996-07-12 10:09 Boyd
1996-07-12  4:51 Scott
1996-07-12  4:44 Scott
1996-07-12  4:15 Steve
1996-07-12  4:07 Steve
1996-07-11 23:20 Jack
1996-07-11 22:42 Rogers
1996-07-11 22:25 Jack
1996-01-11  3:25 Installation Problems jim
1996-01-11  3:15 jim
1995-12-13 16:53 Steve
1995-11-02  1:07 installation problems John

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