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Boy, do I feel like an idiot.

I forgot I took off RAM for some school subject and lost it, when I ran memtest, it turns out it only has 4MB of RAM. I'll have to go with the DOS version.

Sorry and thank you very much.

baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>  Message from Steven
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>
> > I tried with 2 more floppies, same result. 
> > I can start it up on other computers without 
> > problem with the same floppies. 
>
> Right, that clarifies things.  Definitely not 
> the floppies.
>
> > In this particular computer, there doesn't seem 
> > to be an error (or at least I don't get any message), 
> > it just stops at that line 
>
> It sounds to me like it doesn't have enough good RAM.
> The floppy version of BL3 needs 12mb or more.
>
> IIRC, you said the computer has 16mb RAM.  Are
>  you
> absolutely sure it is all good?  The automatic RAM
> count at POST (system startup) is not adequate.  
> It is not uncommon for Linux to trip over RAM faults 
> that DOS ignores.  I suggest you run a comprehensive 
> RAM checking utility on that computer.  I recommend 
> memtest: http://www.memtest.org/
>
> Several of us here use it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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