[Floppertalk] Flopper Installation Problem (Win98)
jleyda
floppertalk@oldskool.org
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:48:01 -0700
> Does Flopper run under Win98? I can't seem to get it
> to install correctly.
absolutely not. Flopper is a wimp and can only be used in pure DOS, you
can't even load himem.sys. Press F8 during boot and select "safe mode
command prompt only".
Technically the install should work under98, although any resident virus
scanners will probably alert you to the fact that install is doing weird
things to the boot sector on the floppy drive. Flopper itself cannot run
under windows though.
It's prolly best to just do all of this in pure dos.
>
> I've followed the instructions in the manual to create
> the special installation boot disk, then reboot to
> that disk. When I attempt to run install.com a second
> time with the installation boot disk still in the
> drive, it tells me it's going to save the information
> collected to a file - I press return - it accesses the
> floppy drive, then freezes.
>
> Any help or suggestions welcome. Thanks!
try a newer version of flopper:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/flop_102.zip
This lockup thing has happened before, and I think it was fixed in the newer
versions.
Sorry the web page version is woefully out of date, and I haven't haven't
been given access to update it. ahem, jim, are you reading this? ;)
good luck, let us know how it goes.
With the new flopper zip, you should be able to run "install/2" with the
floppy disk in the drive and it should pull the data off without making you
reboot to the disk again.
-jeff!
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