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- OS/2 2.0 Installation Fix
- (per instructions from IBM Boca)
-
- Applies only to certain ISA (AT bus) machines with MFM, RLL, or ESDI
- hard disk drives. Apples to CSD level 02000 ONLY (the initial retail
- release of OS/2 2.0).
-
- Fixes installation problem involving one or more of the following
- symptoms: extremely slow copying to hard disk, grating/whining noise
- when accessing hard disk, FDISK errors.
-
- (1) DISKCOPY Diskette 1 of the installation package. Set the original
- aside and use the copy from now on and in the instructions below.
-
- (2) Replace CONFIG.SYS on Diskette 1 with the CONFIG.SYS in this package.
- (Or simply replace the line "BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD" with
- "REM BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD" in CONFIG.SYS using a text editor. The
- CONFIG.SYS file in this package is provided as a convenience.)
-
- (3) Begin the installation procedure by booting from the Installation
- Disk. Proceed through the first five disks of installation.
-
- (4) The system will then prompt you to insert the Installation Diskette.
- Do so. After copying files from this diskette, the system will then
- prompt you to remove the Installation Diskette. Do so. However, just
- after hitting Enter, and just after the screen clears, quickly reinsert
- the Installation Diskette.
-
- (5) When prompted, insert Diskette 1 and press Enter. When prompted
- again, press Esc instead of Enter.
-
- (6) At the OS/2 command line, issue the following commands:
- RENAME C:\OS2\IBM1S506.ADD IBM1S506.XXX
- COPY C:\OS2\IBMINT13.I13 C:\OS2\IBM1S506.ADD
- replacing C:, if necessary, with the drive on which OS/2 is being
- installed.
-
- (7) Remove Diskette 1, and press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot. Proceed
- through the remainder of installation, the Tutorial, and view the
- README file.
-
-
- Timothy F. Sipples sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu
-
- [Revised April 21, 1992, to correct error in COPY command, Step (6).]