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- From: max@megatek.com (Max Elliot)
- Subject: Re: Wierdness when installing a new driver!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.204437.19611@megatek.com>
- Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
- References: <BzEq73.515@ocsmd.ocs.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:44:37 GMT
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- From article <BzEq73.515@ocsmd.ocs.com>, by mark@ocsmd.ocs.com (Mark Wilson):
- > This may sound dumb, bu I had this same problem when I assumed the new drivers
- > were in the root of the new floppy; doing a DIR and locating them solved it,
- > although I had to remember to put the trailing backslash on the path!
-
- Oh yes! time to bash Microsoft! I have had a number of idiotic problems
- with installing drivers and related software, the most notably stupid of
- which was:
-
- While installing Diamond stealth VRAM drivers, SETUP asks me to specify
- where the files are. I am using drive b: so I specify that drive. It
- read a number of files correctly, then spins drive a for a moment and
- tells me there is a read error on drive a! What the ^%$@ does drive a:
- have to do with installing software off of drive b: ???? So I call a
- tech rep at Diamond who quickly acknowledges this as a bug in Microsoft
- SETUP and tells me that if I put a disk, any disk, into drive a: that
- the install will complete fine. It does. What the %$#@%$??? It shows
- that Microsoft is getting to be a big company. They will get farther and
- farther away from being able to supply consistently useful software. I
- am almost glad, in that this allows third parties to develop a market
- for themselves, but with the way Microsoft holds all the cards to their
- chest, it may turn into a giant legal warzone. I hope that we can all
- come up with excellent third party alternatives to MS that will leave
- them embarrassed and apologetic.
- -Max
-
- Ha! I feel better already.
-
-