On Thursday 18 September 2003 10:09, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:12:02AM +1200, cr wrote: > <snip> > > > But neither Win95 nor Win98 would install on Partition 2. They both > > siezed shortly after the 'License Agreement' stage, and on rebooting > > displayed a message about disabling the virus checker (*what* virus > > checker?) > > In the BIOS?
Oh, right. I think I'll just declare myself a Clue Free Zone. :( I was misled by the reference in the error message to cancelling any virus checkers in Config.sys or Autoexec.bat, I completely missed its mention of the BIOS..... of course, after DOS FORMAT's bizarre behaviour in the vicinity of a non-DOS extended partition, I guess I was expecting M$'s error messages to mean almost anything other than what they actually said ;) > > Or does "*what* virus checker" imply that you've already turned this > off? No, it just means I have installed no virus checkers. Other than the one in the BIOS which I'd completely forgotten. OK, turned it off, now everything installs just fine. D'you suppose I can plead advancing senility? ;) Next step, see if I can boot the whole thing with GRUB.... cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
