[arachne] Re: Getting Arachne to run on a 286 - Continued!

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--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Glenn McCorkle <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How much free memory do you have before attempting to start
> Arachne ?
> 
> Arachne requires at-least 525kb to start.

Honestly, I don't remember, I'll have to check later, but I'm sure I had at 
least that free. The only things I have loaded are DOS and the packet driver 
for the 3COM network card. I even tried running it without the packet driver...

> Also.... which type of mem are you choosing during setup
> for
> swapping ? (XMS, EMS, or disk swapping)

I have never made it that far. The self extracting archinve decompresses, and 
launches setup and promptly hangs.

> I must assume that you are in-fact choosing CGA before
> going to the
> setup screens themselves. And that you _do_ change the
> defaultly
> checked VGA to CGA on the video setup screen.
> (that-is _if_ you ever get that far)

I don't get that far. :) 

> Perhaps try again from the DOS command prompt in the
> Aracne_main dir....
> 
> setup.bat -inst<enter>
> 
> The '-inst' option will start the whole setup all over from
> the start.

I'll try that, just for grins, but I've already tried running the 
self-extracting archive from 'scratch' twice. It fails before it can even start 
any kind of setup.

-Ian
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