Booting from Win 95 osr 2 floppy downloaded from freepctech.  Goes
through the usual chain of format questions after using "/s" switch, and
then comes back with the "insufficient memory" response when it tries to
format.

Richard Quilhot wrote;

> what are you booting from, a floppy or the harddrive?
> If you booting from the harddrive, you might have to manually load (in
> config.sys)
> the memory management himem.sys & emm386.exe.
>
> Rick Quilhot
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Hi All,
>
> The basics;
> A friends Fujitsu Monte Carlo Notebook
> P 100
> 38 Meg ram on board
> 800 (?) Meg hard drive
> Windoze 98 SE
>
> Computer slowed down badly when 98 SE was installed by another friend of
> his.  There's about 80 meg left on hard drive.  My personal feeling is
> that computer is working too hard with Win 98.  I'm trying to reinstall
> 95 osr 2 on it and create a partition for swap file.  When I try to
> format it, I get "insufficient memory to load system files."  What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> Art Cassel
>
>

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