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

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You never get far enough to see this stuff ?

http://www.glennmcc.org/286-inst.jpg

Do you have this newest file ?

http://www.glennmcc.org/arachne/195-8086/195-8086.zip

filesize -- date/time
1,171,729 Jun 24 19:40 195-8086.zip
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On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:50:43 -0700 (PDT), Mr Ian Primus wrote:

> --- 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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