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- From: fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington)
- Subject: Re: install can't get past disk 1
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.235548.6626@csc.ti.com>
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- References: <1992Jul23.130824.28647@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:55:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.130824.28647@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> you write:
- >How's it goin', eh?
- >
- >Just got my Win -> OS/2 upgrade, many thanx to Jon Hacker for his soothing
- >advice. However, the damn thing won't install....
- >
- >Disk 0 (installation disk) works fine. Disk 1 produces:
- > OS/2 SYSTEM INSTALL
- > SYS00371: THE SYSTEM CANNOT WRITE TO A WRITE PROTECTED A:
- >Any idease why the system is trying to write to disk 1 and not disk 0
- >(which is not write protected)???
-
- At least in my distribution (5.25"), Disk 1 is write-enabled. Disk 0
- was originally write-enabled (had a slot cut) but was pasted over to
- write-protect it again. All of the others were 'permanently' write
- protected (that is, never had a slot cut in the edge).
-
- The *first* time you try to install an *upgrade* version, it looks for
- a previous version of MS-DOS on the hard disk, and if it finds it,
- writes a little file on Disk 1. Thereafter, it will not do this check
- again.
-
- (It's looking for a zero-length file named RUP.RUP; if you simply put
- this file on Disk 1, it will probably work.)
-
- It seems to me that they originally intended to put this file on Disk
- 0, hence used one that had the slot cut. Then they discovered that it
- really had to be on disk 1, so they pasted over the slot on disk 0,
- and cut a slot on disk 1. It may be that they forgot to do this in
- your box of diskettes.
-
- What I would suggest is that you make a diskcopy of disk 1 onto a
- regular HD floppy, and leave it write-enabled. Once you get past the
- first installation, or at least onto disk 2, you can write-protect
- disk 1 (copy). At some time, you may wish to cut a slot in the
- original disk 1, and copy the RUP.RUP file from your copied disk 1
- onto it, just for completeness. You may have to pull some tricks to
- find a program that will copy a zero-length file.
-
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- Fritz Whittington Texas Instruments, 12840 Hillcrest #200, Dallas, TX 75230
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