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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 2.1 CDROM install problem
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:07:20 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Randy Suess (randy@chinet.chi.il.us) wrote:
- :
- : I received the Beta 2.1 cdrom a few days ago, and am having
- : a problem with one part of the install. I am installing
- : from the cdrom over an existing 2.0 system. The install
- : goes along fine for the 19 virtual disks, but then wants
- : me to insert the first "drivers" disk in f: (my cdrom drive)
- : It seems to expect f: to be a floppy, and won't find the
- : driver in the cdrom hierarchy. Also, it is a not very nice
- : request as there is no escape from it. You can't tell it
- : to change drives or directories. You need to reboot.
- : I am now in the process of creating 26 some floppies and
- : will try the installation from there.
- : Anybody have this kind of problem?
- : --
-
- I had this problem also. I asked on Compuserve and was given the bad news
- that I had to install on a 'clean' system (i.e., format my hard drive -
- system partition only). Being stubborn, I had tried removing all the
- OS/2 stuff from the system. I even used DOS to delete everything including
- the EA files. I then did a chkdsk from OS/2 to clean it up (using the
- install disks to run OS/2). In ALL cases the install failed.
-
- I then did a backup (again using the install disks) of the stuff that
- I cared about. I had done a backup of my Desktop using the wpsbck7.zip
- from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. I then installed and it worked fine. I restored
- my backups with no problem. I then restored my Desktop, problems.
- The printer just wouldn't work properly. I tried reinstalling the
- printer is various ways, deleting it and recreating, anything I could
- think of. Finally, I reinstalled over my new installation (with the
- restored desktop and restored directories, no reformat) and now it works
- fine. My Desktop is what I had before and everything works so far.
-
- Since Beta code apparently requires reformatting, it would be real nice
- if IBM provided a way during beta of saving and restoring the desktop.
- The problem with wpsbck is that it restores the system parts of the desktop:
- template folder, printer objects, etc and some of this is incompatible.
- But it is also something I'd rather have the new version anyway.
-
- Good luck.
-
- BTW, on one of my systems, it required 30 1.44 disks to do the backup!
- I hope yours is simpler (on another system it only required about 5
- disks since I had a larger disk and most things were on another drive
- except for a collection of utilities I've collected and I wanted them
- close to the standard path directories). The system requiring 30 disks
- has a small disk and I don't believe I can afford the waste of partitioning
- since it fragments my unused space between drives and means if the operating
- system grows very much I'll have to repartition.
-