At 06:08 AM 9/8/99 , Andre Chiasson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a memory problem when trying to install win 95.  I have formatted my
>hard disk.  I reboot with my boot disk, and type INSTALL in my D which is my
>cd-rom containing win95.  But I immediately get a message saying something
>like (I'll try translation from french) "THE INSTALLATION IS ONLY POSSIBLE
>WITH MEMORY OVER 442 000 BYTE".
>
>But I have a pentium 166 with 16meg of ram, intel motherboard TC430 and a
>2,1 Gb hard drive.  I even tried installing win 98 and I have the save
>problem.  I tried 2 boot disks:  one I made in win95 and the other I made in
>win 98.
>
>But the funiest thing is I am able to install win 95/98 when I install DOS
>6.2 first.

 From your description of the problem, my guess is your boot disk does not
have a memory manager device that is enabling the system to use memory
above 1mg...   try copying HIMEM.SYS to the boot disk and add as the first
line in your CONFIG.SYS on the boot disk, this statement:

DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS

When you install MS Dos v6.x it will be utilizing the memory manager
and your boot disk is probably sans HIMEM.SYS...  you can find this
file in MS Dos v6.xx or Win9x...

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