On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:07:52AM -0800, jack kinnon wrote: > Thanks for the answer on upgrading. > > Now I want to do an Internet-based installation of a 'compact' > flavor. This, I understand, avoids the use of a stack of floppies. > It requires loading some initial files to the hard-disk, execute > the correct files and then download more files from the Net. > Folllowing instructions from the Debian sites, I had downloaded > root.bin, install.bat, linux.bin, drivers.tgz, loadlin.exe. > > I edited install.bat so that the files referred in there has the > right directory path. When I executed install.bat, in the 'cmd' > window of XP, there was "Invalid keyboard code specified" in the > beginning, followed by lines about CPU mode and ending with a line > that reads "WARNING: Not enough free memory (load buffer size)." My > PC has 256MB. > > Can someone tell me what's wrong?
Loadlin won't work with the NT flavours of Windoze. You need a "real" DOS mode to make it work. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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