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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Reformat needed to install 2.1 over 2.1 beta?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.024123.25620@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 02:41:23 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.221103.8199@wam.umd.edu> <1ia6thINN4i@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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- In article <1ia6thINN4i@hpscit.sc.hp.com> kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin) writes:
- >: If I may, as a general comment, suggest that is it *always*
- >: preferable to install fresh than to attempt to install over a
- >: previous version.
- Agreed. "Upgrades" are a bitch.
-
- >I found it a real pain, but the recommended procedure from IBM appears to
- >continue to be to reformat when installing a beta version over anything
- >(including a previous beta) and when installing a released version over a
- >beta. In the past I've done that. This time I learned that it was
- >necessary. I had all kinds of problems when I tried to short circuit
- >the problem.
-
- Well, I just got the 2.1 beta CD and started reading the notes that came
- with it. There seem to be references to a sort of "chicken-and-egg"
- problem, that makes it sound like you *do* need your current version of
- OS/2 in order to install the beta from the CD. That is, there are
- references to needing the CD to be set up and supported (I.e., OS/2
- drivers installed and working) in order for the install of the beta from
- CD to work. Have I got this right? (I hope this is *not* the case, and
- that I am misreading things...)
-
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